 They arrived in San Francisco on 15 October.Bakunin boarded the "Orizaba" for Panama (the quickest route to New York), and after waiting two weeks boarded the "Champion" for New York.In Boston, Bakunin visited Karol Forster, a partisan of Ludwik Mieroslawski during the 1848 Revolution in Paris, and caught up with other "Forty-Eighters", veterans of the 1848 revolutions in Europe, such as Friedrich Kapp.