CHAPTER XII. 



Pacific Voyage — San Francisco — Grove of Mammoth Trees — 

 YosEMiTE Valley — Gold Mines in the Sierra Nevada — 

 Blue Grotto — Salt Lake City — TIocky Mottntains — Chicago — 

 Niagara Falls — The St. Lawrence — Lake Champlain — New 

 York. 



The " Great Republic," an American steamer with 

 enormous beam engines swinging their mighty arms in 

 mid-air, was the name of my ocean home for the next 

 three weeks. She was crowded with passengers, carry- 

 ing seventy-five first-class and 1,200 Chinese in the 

 steerage. There was every possible accommodation for 

 so long a voyage, all the cabins and saloons were on 



