He traveled across the continent via the Niagara Falls, Chicago, Cheyenne, the Rockies, Ogden, Salt Lake, the Sierra Nevada and San Francisco, where he embarked an American liner Le Gaëlic whose crew was entirely Chinese and arrived on October 19 in Yokohama.
Both entered Tokyo where Dalmas obtained from Governor Tricou the authorization to explore the interior mountains.
He then crossed the provinces of Mino and Omi and joined Lake Biwa and via a small steam train reached Otsu.
He reached Victoria Harbour and Kowloon then fared up the Pearl River to Guangzhou.
In April-May 1894, he made a trip to the Mediterranean and returned with an album of sixty-four photographs of Greece and Turkey preserved today at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.