On the morning of the sailing he had said good-bye to his family, and they were imagining him as already far down the bay, when a sudden ring at the door was so like the one he was accustomed to give that one of his children exclaimed, "There is papa!" and to the surprise of all he walked into the room. The vessel had been detained in the harbor, and he could not remain contentedly on board almost in sight of his home, and so he came back to pass a few hours. They sailed as far as Savanilla, New Granada (now Colombia), at the mouth of the Magdalena, and from there up that river for six hundred miles. Disembarking at the head of navigation, they passed four months in mountain travel on mule-back, traversing the table-lands south to Bogota, following the Andes to Quito, and crossing the equator and Chimborazo, at last reaching the Pacific at Guayaquil. From Guayaquil they were able to take steamers to Panama, but the railroad across the isthmus was but partly built; for the rest of the crossing they had again to resort to mules. This would be a difficult and toilsome journey even now, and it was far more so forty years ago. But it had memorable results, for it was at this time that Mr. Church made the sketches for some of his most famous tropical landscapes. Before Mr. Field left New York he had drawn the accompanying map and this paper, from which it will be seen that he made most careful calculations of his expenses: CYRUS W. FIELD'S ESTIMATE OF EXPENSES TO SOUTH AMERICA IN 1853. Outfit $150 00 New York to Savanilla, per vessel 60 00 Savanilla to Barranquilla, per horse 10 00 Barranquilla to Honda, per steamer 90 00 Honda to Bogota, per mule 20 00 Bogota to Popayan, } Popayan to Pasto, } Pasto to Quito, } mule 200 00 Quito to Mount Chimborazo, } M. C. to Volcano of Cotopaxi, } Cotopaxi to Guayaquil, } Guayaquil to Lima, per steamer 75 00 Lima to Valparaiso, per steamer 110 00 Valparaiso to Santiago, per carriage 20 00 Santiago to Valparaiso, per carriage 20 00 Valparaiso to Panama, per steamer 190 00 Panama to Aspinwall, per mule, railroad, and steamer 30 00 Aspinwall to New York, per steamer 65 00 Sundries, say for 180 days @ $2 00 360 00 Extra premium on life-insurance 100 00 Sundries 100 00 --------- $1,600 00 On another paper was written: PLACES OF INTEREST TO VISIT.