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cow boys who were waiting to receive him gave them • a very 

 favourable idea of the class of men engaged in developing that 

 country. He produced a newspaper called the Bad Lands 

 Cow Boy, which gave some idea of the state of society in that 

 region. A special Pullman car was provided for members of 

 the British Association at St. Paul. Sir Richard Temple and 

 some of his friends from the Winnipeg excursion joined them 

 at Targo, and the novelty and excitement of conveying so large 

 a company in four-horse " stages" from the railway terminus 

 over the rough roads and through the wild scenery leading to 

 the Mammoth Springs Hotel was a fitting preparation for the 

 extraordinary country they were about to see. They had been 

 told that that hotel cost ^"40,000. Everything was on a large 

 scale, and the electric light was used. It was crowded with the 

 most picturesque assembly of men he had ever seen. Members 

 of the British Association bargaining for carriages to convey 

 them for a week through the park ; stage coach owners and 

 drivers, ranchemen, cowboys, trappers ; most of them in dis- 

 tinctive and picturesque dress, formed a scene he enjoyed 

 greatly. At dinner they noticed a party of six dining together. 

 His brother fell into conversation afterwards with one of them, 

 who, when he knew that they were Britishers, stepped out in 

 front of them and exclaimed, " You are English ; I love the 

 English ; I am an Englishman myself ;" and then he described 

 how he had been taken prisoner while serving in the army of 

 Maximilian in.Mexico, and obtained no relief from the American 

 Consul, but when he applied to the British Consul he was 

 immediately released, and added, " Is it any wonder I am proud 

 of being an Englishman ?" In the morning they visited the 

 Mammoth Springs, which the lecturer then described, and 

 exhibited photographs of them. In the course of their visit to the 

 boiling springs, they met a noted photographer, Mr. Watkins, 

 of California, who was so particular as to his atmospheric effects 

 that he kept his camera ready in front of " Old Faithful" (the 

 name of one of the springs) for two days, waiting for a clear 

 sky, as clouds would have marred the picture. Having stopped 

 at " Marshall's," where they met travellers of various nationali- 



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