As I learned that all the roads in Northern Iowa were blocked, I made the entire circuit, from point to point, in a sleigh, traveling forty and fifty miles a day.
At the Sherman House, in Chicago, three weeks later, I met Mr.Bradlaugh and General Kilpatrick, who were advertised on the same route ahead of me.

"Well," said I, "where have you gentlemen been ?" "Waiting here for the roads to be opened.

We have lost three weeks' engagements," they replied.

As the General was lecturing on his experiences in Sherman's march to the sea, I chaffed him on not being able, in an emergency, to march across the State of Iowa.

They were much astonished and somewhat ashamed, when I told them of my long, solitary drives over the prairies from day to day.