October 24th, 1872. Rainy; this is the season when frosts begin.

At ten o'clock in the morning we left Newcastle and travelled ninety miles south through County Durham to the western part of Yorkshire, arriving in Bradford at half past two in the afternoon. We were welcomed at the station by the mayor and went by carriage to the Victoria Hotel, where we took rooms. Both inside the station building and lining the street leading to the hotel was an uninterrupted throng of onlookers. Crowds turned out to see us in every other city we visited, both before and after, but this was the largest such reception we received. At many places in the streets bills had been posted announcing, ‘Japanese Ambassadors Will Arrive On Thursday, Escorted By The Mayor.’ When we arrived at the hotel, we found that lunch had been prepared for us at the mayor's behest. After the meal he came to make an address of welcome. His hospitality was boundless. In the evening he gave a dinner for us at the hotel.

October 25th. Cloudy.

At ten o'clock in the morning we travelled about three miles by train to the town of Saltaire. Until twenty years ago this had been open moorland, used only as pastureland for sheep and cattle, but since Sir Titus Salt had built a mill for weaving the wool of the animal called the ‘alpaca’, industrial and commercial enterprises had flocked there.