2 4 6 SIR VICTOR BROOKE CHAP. 



"SAN FRANCISCO, Tuesday, 



We have just got ready with very light baggage, 



and start for the Yosemite at 3.30. We train till 



6 A.M. to-morrow ; drive all Wednesday to a place 



called Wawona ; sleep there, reach the valley about 



noon, Thursday, and remain in it till Sunday morning, 



when we drive back to Wawona ; visit the big trees 



that afternoon, and return that night here, arriving, 



that is, 1st July. We have given up the Yellowstone, 



and go to Monterey, about 80 miles south of this, on 



the 2nd. It is a lovely place, and I want to see the 



different pines of the country, and to do that one must 



dodge about a bit, and it is, I hear, a lovely place all 



about. We shall leave San Francisco on the 7th July 



for homewards, arrive at Salt Lake City, pth, early. 



Leave late on the loth, and go to Colorado Springs, 



where we arrive on the I ith ; stay there I2th and 



1 3th, and on I4th go to Denver; leave next day for 



Cheyenne, and spend a week with Whitehouse ; then 



go on to Omatia on 22nd, and three or four days with 



Toby Cairnes on his ranche, near the Black Hills in 



South Dakota. Arrive at Chicago on 28th ; stay there 



two days; arrive Niagara by 1st; stay there a day, 



and get to New York on the 3rd, and sail in the 



Teutonic on the 6th ; arrive Liverpool about the 



1 3th August, so I should be with you about the 



1 5th. I shall be glad to get to the dear old nest 



again after all our wanderings. We shall have been 



about 1 6,000 miles ! This is the very vilest climate 



I ever saw, and does not improve. I am very fit, 



and weigh 12 stone 12 Ibs., but I take great care 



here of the cold. I am also taking it very quietly 



travelling, and, after this Yosemite trip, have nothing 



but easy journeys, though it sounds big on paper. 



