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24th June. We shall stay about the Yosemite Valley, 

 etc. etc., for a fortnight. I dined last night with Sir 

 Donald Smith, a fine old gentleman rather like Darwin, 

 and got a letter of great use to us to the authorities. I 

 have just seen the traffic manager, and am to get a lot 

 of letters from him which will be of use also, so I think 

 we are paved all the way along. This is a rather 

 barren, rack -renty- looking place. I went to see the 

 kennels yesterday, which are really very good and 

 really well done. The beds in the cars are very good, 

 but there is little room for luggage in them. Yester- 

 day I bought a lot of splendid photos which will give 

 you a grand idea of the country. I am dreadfully 

 afraid we may have to give up the Zel Constone from 

 want of time. There is no use hurrying, and there is 

 such a lot to see ; it is such a vast country, no one who 

 has not been here can form an idea of it. I heard a 

 noble sermon in Boston by a Mr. Brooks on the Holy 

 Spirit, the grandest utterance on the subject I ever 

 heard, or will hear in this world. He is a Boston man, 

 and a noble old fellow. It was Whitsunday, hence the 

 subject. I am just going off to the hotel to pack up 

 for the four days in car." 



" IN THE TRAIN ON PRAIRIES ABOUT 329 MILES FROM CALGARY, 

 Friday, $otk May. 



Here we are, nearly through our longest railway jour- 

 ney. We arrive at Calgary at 2.30 to-night, and I will 

 finish and post this there. Considering everything we have 

 been very comfortable, having most luckily had a draw- 

 ing-room compartment to ourselves, where we are private. 

 It is regular pigdom in the other parts of the car, as 

 it is only divided into imaginary sections, and one wash- 

 ing-place and a hole to smoke in not fit for a nigger. 

 I am very much disappointed with the sleeping-cars, 



