I get all my expenses and The Journal pays me $3,000 for the month's work.

The Harper's Magazine also takes a story at six hundred dollars and Russell will reprint Remington's sketches and my story in book form, so I shall probably clear $4,000 in the next month or six weeks.
I was a week in getting information on the subject so I know all about it from the men who have just been there and I want you to pay attention to what I tell you they told me and not to listen to any stray visitor who comes in for tea and talks without any tact or knowledge.

There is no danger in the trip except the problem of getting there and getting away again, and that is now removed by The Journal's yacht.

I would have gone earlier had any of the periodicals that asked me to go shown me any way to get there-- THERE IS NO FEVER THIS TIME OF YEAR and as you know fever never touches me.

It got all the others in Central America and never worried me at all.