With button-hole badges of the Stars and Stripes and red, white and blue bands on the soft straw hats that we wore, it was an easy matter for the Australians to distinguish us wherever we went.

At the Grosvenor Hotel we all assembled about an hour before departure, at the invitation of the Hon.

Daniel O'Connor, to bid farewell to himself and to other prominent representatives of New South Wales.

Here we were handsomely entertained, and when we left to take our seats in the special train that had been prepared, it was with cheers that fairly shook the rafters.

My memories of Sydney are all pleasant ones, and it was with sincere feelings of regret that I left the many friends that I had made while there.
The coaches in which we journeyed to Melbourne were built in the English style, with compartments, and are not nearly so comfortable as the sleeping and drawing-room cars to be found in America, and had the old gentleman been with us I am afraid he would have kicked loud and long over the poker playing facilities that they afforded.