and he visited the Almaden mine near San Jose, and the Redington, Manhattan, and Phoenix mines near Napa. He then visited the Calistoga hot springs and geysers, and the Petrified Forest before beginning his journey East across the American continent. He took the Central Pacific Railroad to Reno, Nevada, where he stopped to tour the Comstock mines via an unpleasant stagecoach journey: ...perched on some boxes on the roof of the coach, without my rug, and barely able to hold on as we rattled along the rough mountain tracks, I was numbed and shaken to pieces long before we reached Virginia city. When returning by the same coach it was daylight, and we then saw that it was full of bullet-holes, the work of robbers, while the inside was well supplied with irons, intended, as the driver told us, for unruly passengers. He resumed his journey east via railroad, stopping only in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he had a brief interview with Brigham Young, before resuming his journey to New York and on to England. Borneo Company Lawsuit During the last few years of his tenure at the BCL in Sarawak, Helms had been dissatisfied with the profit and loss accounting for his portion of the BCL activities. When he returned to London, one of his goals was to renegotiate his contract for a more equitable arrangement, and obtain compensation for past inequities. One of Helms' concerns was that financial losses due to coal mining activities in the Simunjan District in Sarawak were being attributed to his division, but were not under his control. Helms had regularly expressed concern over this arrangement during his correspondence with the BCL managers in Singapore and London. He was also concerned that an 1866 agreement, signed by Helms but not ratified by the BCL Board, had never been finalized, leaving him operating under an 1860 contract which incidentally gave him a third of any profits from his division. This had not been lucrative up to 1867, when the BCL was struggling to survive, but became a subject of dispute when the mines at Tegora were discovered and became profitable. Upon his arrival in London in 1872, he found the BCL directors resistant to correcting the problem. This was compounded by the death in 1871 of BCL Chairman Richard Henderson, Helms' long-time friend and advocate on the BCL board of directors. By 1876, when