The following shows the dates of the Author’s arrivals and departures, with distances in miles travelled by rail, water, and road, together with the number of post-horses employed:—
| DATES. | PLACES. | RAIL. | WATER. | ROAD. | HORSES. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 30 | to | May 3 | London to Petersburg | 1,683 | 23 | ||
| May 12 | to | May 13 | Petersburg to Moscow | 402 | |||
| May 16 | to | May 17 | Nijni Novgorod to Kasan | 266 | |||
| May 19 | to | May 22 | Kasan to Perm | 686 | |||
| May 22 | to | May 24 | Perm to Ekaterineburg | 312 | |||
| May 27 | to | May 29 | Ekaterineburg to Tiumen | 204 | 74 | ||
| May 30 | to | June 1 | Tiumen to Tobolsk | 172 | 65 | ||
| June 3 | to | June 10 | Tobolsk to Tomsk | 1,601 | |||
| June 12 | to | June 15 | Tomsk to Barnaul | 238 | 51 | ||
| June 16 | to | June 18 | Barnaul to Tomsk | 238 | 51 | ||
| June 19 | to | June 24 | Tomsk to Krasnoiarsk | 369 | 165 | ||
| June 26 | to | June 27 | Krasnoiarsk to Gold-mine and back | 24 | |||
| June 27 | to | July 6 | Krasnoiarsk to Irkutsk | 671 | 267 | ||
| July 4 | to | July 5 | Telma to Alexandreffsky and back | 32 | |||
| July 10 | to | July 14 | Irkutsk to Kiakhta | 312 | 80 | ||
| July 15 | Kiakhta to Cheelantoui and back | 54 | |||||
| July 16 | to | July 18 | Kiakhta to Verchne-Udinsk | 148 | 35 | ||
| July 18 | to | July 21 | Verchne-Udinsk to Chita | 294 | 112 | ||
| July 21 | to | July 24 | Chita to Stretinsk | 242 | 78 | ||
| July 24 | to | Aug. 8 | Stretinsk to Khabarofka | 1,345 | |||
| July 25 | to | July 28 | Kara | 46 | |||
| Aug. 9 | to | Aug. 13 | Khabarofka to Nikolaefsk | 628 | |||
| Aug. 31 | to | Sept. 4 | Nikolaefsk to Khabarofka | 628 | |||
| Sept. 6 | to | Sept. 11 | Khabarofka to Kamen-Ruiboloff | 510 | |||
| Sept. 11 | to | Sept. 12 | Kamen-Ruiboloff to Rasdolnoi | 88 | 27 | ||
| Sept. 15 | Rasdolnoi to Vladivostock | 66 | |||||
| 2,670 | 5,753 | 3,132 | 1,005 | ||||
| SEA MILES. | |||||||
| Sept. 30 | to | Oct. 4 | Vladivostock to Hakodate | 553 | |||
| Oct. 4 | to | Oct. 11 | Hakodate to Yokohama | 645 | |||
| Oct. 11 | to | Oct. 27 | Yokohama to San Francisco | 5,261 | |||
| Oct. 29 | to | Nov. 5 | San Francisco to Ogden | 883 | |||
| Oct. 29 | to | Nov. 3 | Lathrop to Yo-Semite Valley and back | 182 | 170 | ||
| Nov. 5 | to | Nov. 6 | Ogden to Salt Lake City and back | 74 | |||
| Nov. 6 | to | Nov. 8 | Ogden to Omaha | 1,032 | |||
| Nov. 8 | to | Nov. 9 | Omaha to Chicago | 502 | |||
| Nov. 10 | to | Nov. 13 | Chicago to New York | 961 | |||
| Nov. 15 | to | Nov. 25 | New York to Liverpool | 3,482 | |||
| Nov. 25 | to | Nov. 25 | Liverpool to Blackheath | 207 | 3 | ||
| 6,511 | 15,694 | 3,305 | 1,005 | ||||
| 25,510 | |||||||
From the foregoing it will appear that the total distance travelled was 25,510 miles, of which 3,305 miles were accomplished by the hire of 1,005 post-horses. The whole time occupied was 210 days, of these, 50 days were stationary; thus leaving 160 days, during which was covered an average of 159 miles per day.