At Ballarat, about four hours' distance from Melbourne, where we were scheduled to play a game on our return, we found 'a reception committee at the depot to meet us, together with a number of ladies.

The country through which we journeyed that afternoon was fairly attractive, but thinly settled and literally overrun with that pest of the Australian farmer, the rabbits, which, like good race-horses, seemed to come in all shapes, color and size.

The country swarmed with them and for the first time we began to realize what an immense damage they were capable of doing to the growing crops in that section.
It was about half-past ten o'clock the next morning when we reached Adelaide, and so hot that a Fourth of July day in St.Louis would have seemed like Arctic weather by comparison.

At the depot we found United States Consul Murphy and a committee of citizens in waiting, and were at once driven to the City Hall, where Mayor Shaw made us welcome to the city.

The usual spread and speeches followed, after which we were driven to the hotel.