.--Cathedral of St. Louis.--The Cemeteries.--Melancholy
Perspectives.--Audubon Park.--Graves for Sale.--The French Market.--
Mobile and New Orleans as Seen Nearly Thirty Years Ago.--St. Charles
Hotel.--A Dinner at Dr. Mercer's 19

V

Impressions of New Orleans.--Its Harbor.--The Levee at Night.--Southern
Texas.--Its Forests, Flowers, and Birds.--The Prairie Pool 25

VI

San Antonio.--Work of Jesuit Missionaries.--Street Ramble.--The Old
Cathedral.--Evenings in our Car.--A Mission Car.--The Tired Clergyman
with his Renewal of Vigor.--The Alamo.--The Siege Sustained by Colonel
Travis and his Men.--The Tragedy.--Hymn of the Alamo.--The Western
Texas Military Academy 30

VII

In Desolate Places.--Beauty Everywhere.--Railway Engineering.--
Analogy in the Conduct of Life.--El Paso.--The Sand Storm.--Human
Grasshoppers.--The Placid Night.--Rev. Dr. Higgins.--Juarez.--Rev.
M. Cabell Martin.--Strangeness of our Mexican Glimpse.--The
Post-Office.--The Old Church.--The Padre's Perquisites.--The
Prison.--El Paso Again.--Cavalry Going East for the War 47

VIII

Leaving El Paso.--Deming.--The Desert.--The Armed Guard.--The Cacti and
Other Flowers.--The Yuma Indians.--Avoiding Kodaks.--Rossetti's "Sister
Helen" 54

IX

Los Angeles.--Our Beautiful Anchorage.--First Impressions.--Sunday
Morning in a Garden.--St. Paul's Church.--Pasadena.--The Diva's
Car.--Journeying to San Diego.--First View of the Pacific 60

X

San Diego.--The Bathing-House.--Alarming Disappearance.--The Mystery
Solved.--Carriage Drive to Mission Cliffs.--Coronado Beach.--The
Museum.--The Hotel.--High Fog 66

XI

San Diego to Santa Barbara.--The Old Mission.--The Inner Cloister.--The
Afternoon Ride.--The Lady of the Blue Jeans.--Samarcand 74

XII

Leaving Santa Barbara.--Delay at Saugus.--Viewing the Wreck.--
Brentwood.--The Mission Mass.--The Social Afternoon.--The Garden
and the Homing Pigeons.--The Grape-Shot.--The Chinaman's Pipe 82

XIII

San Francisco.--Bustling Traffic.--Railroad Employees.--The
Flagman.--The Palace Hotel.--The Seal Rocks.--Sutro Residence and
Baths.--The Presidio.--Sentinels.--Golden Gate Park.--The Memorial
Cross.--San Francisco and Edinburgh Compared.--The Cable Cars.--
Chinatown.--The Opium Den.--The