And besides this, the hundreds of questions which I was called upon to answer further embarrassed and perplexed me.
According to the route laid out for me by General Stager, I was to stop at Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Rochester on my way to New York, and he provided me with all the necessary railroad passes.

Just as I was about to leave Chicago I met Professor Henry A.Ward, of Rochester, for whom during the previous year or two I had collected a large number of specimens of wild animals.

He was on his way to Rochester, and kindly volunteered to act as my guide until we reached that point.

We spent one day in viewing the wonders of Niagara, and I stopped one day at Rochester and was shown the beauties of that handsome city by Professor Ward, and I had the honor of receiving an invitation to dine with the Mayor.
On arriving at New York I was met at the depot by Mr.J.G.Hecksher, who had been appointed as "a committee of one" to escort me to the Union Club, where James Gordon Bennett, Leonard W.Jerome and others were to give me an informal reception, and where I was to make my headquarters during my visit in the great metropolis.

I had an elegant dinner at the club rooms, with the gentlemen who had been out on the September hunt, and other members of the club.
After dinner, in company with Mr.Hecksher--who acted as my guide--I started out on the trail of my friend, Ned Buntline, whom we found at the Brevoort Place Hotel.