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military-commercial twin cities combined to render out visit to the South of England profit-able and enjoable. Brighton with its beauty in repose and its terror in a cyclone will long be remembered as our last stop before going to Glasgow (Scotland), where the winter was spent in a specially arranged building. Here we were made acquainted with the many sturdy virtues of the Scot, and here 6,000 orphan childern, impromptu, sang " Yankee Doodle " on the appearance of the starry flag. Glasgow will ever be remebered for the many public and social coutesies extended.
A return to the scene of our London triumphs brought a renewal of all that was pleasant and agreeable in our former experience, and brought our visit to the Old World to a close with a bright compliment under the circumstances ( the Court in mourning for Prince Albert Victor) of a Royal request to exhibit before her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of England and Empress of India, at Windsor Castle ; who was thus the first and only potentate on earth to view, as yet, the Wild West in conjunction with the Rough Riders of the World.
This episode has been so lately exploite in the press as to preclude more extended comment.
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RETURN, RETROSPECTION AND REVIEW.
Leaving England with genuine expressions of regret from thousands who witnessed our departure, we boarded at Tilbury Docks in London the good American liner, Mohawk, traversing the North Sea, the English Channel and the broad Atlantic in a journey with extreme comfort, and weighted down with pleasant reminiscences of the past and glorius anticipation of the feeling of sentiment that permeates every one as he nears his native land and views the grandest of all panormas, the vision of New York Harbor with its Liberty beacon and its starry falg flying ; ----the feeling that inspired Howard Payne, and would cause even the mute to wish to burst forth with the thrill of a bird and the power of a patti, or a concentrated orchestra, as a relief, in " Home, Sweet Home. "
The good ship Mohawk deserves passing mention from the fact that while a nine- day boat from London Dock to Jersey City, through her latter-day construction, she equals seven or eight days from Queenstown or Southampton, and does not roll from side to side.
We were in a three days' storm of so severe a nature as to cause intense interest in New York on the arrival of several " ocean greyhounds." Stories of battended-down hatches, passngers prevented from going on deck, and in fact several crazed through excitement ; yet the writer must say that with the exception of the " up hill and down dale" motion, the Mohawk during the height of the three days' strom was never sufficiently moved to render unstable the under-pinning of a two year old babe.
Entering the harbor just in time of the evening to " anchor " in veiw of Greater New York, the ocean traveler can imagine the scene of Indians, Cow-boys, Mexicans, Scouts, Frontiersmen and Staff as we rode at the anchor in veiw of the flickering lights, and what rumor said would possibly soon be one of the objective points to present the enlarged aggregation of Rough Riders of the World we had developed into, and probably for the last time present a " page of passing history" of which so cosmopilitan a city is acknowledged to be innocently ignorant.
Landing ar Jersey City, the usual scenes attendant occurred with nothing to mar the occasion, if I may except one instance in our little circle, which to a certain extent had its tragic side. It was only a white horse, but a well-known horse ; a horse whose picture the public will remember in conjunction with Colonel Cody's, placarded on all walls and exhibited in all windows ; a horse who possibly, with his rider, appeared in more cities and before more pepole of distinction, rank, wealth and character, than ver steed before. The fact that he was the companion of Colonel Cody's last war horse, " Charlie, " who died and was buried at sea upon our first return voyage----and that, singular to relate, without any premonitory symptoms of sickness and never looking better in his life, " Billy" walked off the gang-plank, neighed as his hoofs struck his native shore, and dropped dead---is food for thought that each one may assimilate. However small it may seem, this pathetic incident will always be remembered by the returning voyagers, as " Billy" and " Charley" were favorite members of the " Old Guard."
The writer followed the sun on its westward course with his Red Brother, and it would take a chapter to describe the scenes at the grand reception at the foothill of the Rockies upon the return to the Ogallallas of the various bands----among them many of the Ghost
Dance prisoners, now changed by experience----where the camp fires and dances of their friends showed the savage nature to possess the smae warn sentiment towards loved ones as that which animates more civilized men.