52 THE GEYSERS OF PLUTON RIVER, ETC. 
As it was quite cool, we were enabled to ride fast and 
reach Benicia by two o'clock. Took dinner, and 
afterwards walked out to the military pést, when I made 
my calls upon the officers there. Mr. Osborne joined 
us at five o'clock, and at seven we took the steamboat 
for San Francisco, where we arrived at nine. 
