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CHAPTER IX.-Day of the Santos Innocentes.-Letting off a lake.-Arrival

of the Dale with home letters.-The dead year.-Newly-arrived emigrants.—

Egg-breaking festivities.-Concealment of Chaves.-Plot to capture the al-

CHAPTER X.-Destruction of dogs.-The wash-tub mail.-The surrender in

the north.-Robbing the Californians.-Death-scene in a shanty.-The men

who took up arms.-Arrival of the Independence.-Destitution of our troops.

-Capture of los Angeles ........

CHAPTER XI.-Arrival of the Lexington.-The march to los Angeles, and

battle of San Gabriel.-The capitulation.—Military characteristics of the Cali-

fornians.-Barricades down ......

CHAPTER XII.-Return of T. O. Larkin.-The tall partner in the Californian.

--Mexican officers.-The Cyane.-War mementoes.-Drama of Adam and

Eve.-Carnival.-Birth-day of Washington.-A California captain.-—Appli-

cation for a divorce.-Arrival of the Columbus.......

CHAPTER XIII.-The people of Monterey.-The guitar and runaway wife.-

Mother ordered to flog her son.-Work of the prisoners.-Catching sailors.

-Court of Admiralty.-Gamblers caught and fined.—Lifting land bounda-

CHAPTER XIV.-A convict who would not work.-Lawyers at Monterey.-

Who conquered California.-Ride to a rancho.-Leopaldo.-Party of Cali-

fornians.-A dash into the forests.-Chasing a deer.-Killing a bear.-Ladies

with firearms.-A mother and volunteer.......

CHAPTER XV.-A California pic-nic.-Seventy and seventeen in the dance.—

Children in the grove.-A California bear-hunt.-The bear and bull bated.

-The Russian's cabbage head

CHAPTER XVI.-A Californian jealous of his wife.-Hospitality of the na-

tives.-Honors to Guadalupe.-Application from a Lothario for a divorce.-

Capture of Mazatlan.-Larceny of Canton shawls.-An emigrant's wife

claiming to have taken the country.-A wild bullock in Main-street........ 220

CHAPTER XVII.-Rains in California.-Functions of the alcalde of Monterey.

--Orphans in California.-Slip of the gallows rope.-Making a father whip

his boy.-A convict as prison cook.-The knacka.-Thom. Cole.-A man

robbing himself.-A blacksmith outwitted .....................

CHAPTER XVIII.—First discovery of gold.-Prison guard.—Incredulity about

the gold.-Santiago getting married.—Another lump of gold.—Effects of the

gold fever. The court of an alcalde.-Mosquitoes as constables.--Bob and

his bag of gold.-Return of citizens from the mines.-A man with the gold

cholic.-The mines on individual credit.

CHAPTER XIX.-Tour to the gold-mines.-Loss of horses.-First night in the

woods.-Arrival at San Juan.-Under way.-Camping out.-Bark of the

wolves.-Watch-fires.-San José.-A fresh start.-Camping on the slope of

a hill.-Wild features of the country.-Valley of the San Joaquin.--Band of

wild horses........

CHAPTER XX.-The grave of a gold-hunter.-Mountain spurs.-A company

of Sonoranians.-A night alarm.-First view of the mines.-Character of

the deposits.-A woman and her pan.-Removal to other mines.--Wild In-

dians and their weapons.--Cost of provisions.-A plunge into a gold river.—

Machines used by the gold-diggers

CHAPTER XXI.-Lump of gold lost.-Indians at their game of arrows.-

Camp of the gold-hunters.-A Sonoranian gold-digger.-Sabbath in the

mines.—The giant Welchman.--Nature of gold deposits.-Average per man.

-New discoveries...........

CHAPTER XXII-Visit to the Sonoranian camp.-Festivities and gambling.

-The doctor and teamster.-An alcalde turned cook.-The miner's tattoo.—

The little Dutchman.-New deposits discovered.-A woman keeping a

monté table.-Up to the knee and nine-pence.--The volcanoes and gold.--

Arrival of a barrel of rum ............

CHAPTER XXIII.--Natural amphitheatre.-No scientific clue to the deposits

of gold.-Soil of the mines.-Life among the gold-diggers.-Loss of our

caballada.—The old man and rock.-Departure from the mines.--Travelling

among gorges and pinnacles.-Instincts of the mule.--A mountain cabin.... 309

CHAPTER XXIV.-A lady in the mountains.-Town of Stockton.--Crossing

the valley of the San Joaquin.-The robbed father and boy.--Ride to San

José.-Rum in California.-Highwayman.-Woodland life.-Rachel at the

well.-Farewell to my camping-tree.

CHAPTER XXV.-Cause of sickness in the mines.-The quicksilver mines.-

Heat and cold in the mines.-Traits in the Spanish character.--Health of

California ladies.-A word to mothers.-The pingrass and black bird.-The

Redwood-tree.-Battle of the eggs.........

CHAPTER XXVI.—The public domain.-Scenery around Monterey.--Vine-

yards of los Angeles.-Beauty of San Diego.-The culprit hall.-The rush

for gold.-Land titles.-The Indian doctress.-Tufted partridge.-Death of

CHAPTER XXVII.-The gold region.-Its locality, nature, and extent.-For-

eigners in the mines.-The Indians' discovery of gold.-Agricultural capa-

bilities of California.-Services of United States officers.-First decisive

movement for the organization of a civil government.-Intelligence of the

death of Gen. Kearny

CHAPTER XXVIII.-Ride of Col. Fremont from los Angeles to Monterey and

back.-Character of the country.-The rincon.-Skeletons of dead horses.-

A stampede.-Gray bears.--The return.-The two horses rode by Col. Fre-

mont.-An experiment.-The result.-Characteristics of the California horse.

--Fossil remains.-The two classes of emigrants.-Life in California.-Heads

CHAPTER XXIX.-The tragedy at San Miguel.-Court and culprits.- Age

and circumstances of those who should come to California.-Condition of the

professions.--The wrongs of California.-Claims on the Christian communi-

ty.-Journalists

CHAPTER XXX.-The gold-bearing quartz.-Their locality.-Richness and

extent. The suitable machinery to be used in the mountains.-The court of

admiralty at Monterey.-Its organization and jurisdiction.-The cases deter-

mined.-Sale of the prizes.-Convention and Constitution of California.—

Difficulties and compromises.-Spirit of the instrument............

CHAPTER XXXI.-Glances at towns sprung and springing.-San Francisco.

-Benicia.--Sacramento City.-Sutter.-Vernon.-Boston.-Stockton.-New

York.-Alvezo.-Stanislaus.-Sonora.--Crescent City.-Trinidad......

CHAPTER XXXII.—Brief notices of persons, whose portraits embellish this

volume, and who are prominently connected with California affairs

CHAPTER XXXIII.-The mission establishments in California.-Their origin,

objects, localities, lands, revenues, overthrow.--California Railroad......... 439

LIST OF PORTRAITS.

CAPTAIN JOHN A. SUTTER.

THOMAS O. LARKIN, Esq.

HON. J. C. FREMONT.

HON. Wм. M. GWIN.

HON. G. W. WRIGHT.

JACOB R. SNYDER, Esq.

A LIST

OF THE DELEGATES IN CONVENTION

ASSEMBLED AT MONTEREY, UPPER CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, A. D. 1849.

NAMES.

WHERE BORN.

RESIDENCE.

AGE.

Robert Semple.
John A. Sutter.
Thomas O. Larkin.
M. G. Vallejo.
Wm. M. Gwin.
H. W. Halleck.
Wm. M. Steuart.
Joseph Hobson.

Thos. L. Vermeule.
O. M. Wozencraft.
B. F. Moore.

Wm. E. Shannon.

Winfield S. Sherwood.

Elam Brown.

Joseph Aram.

J. D. Hoppe.
Jno. McDougal.
Elisha O. Crosby.
K. H. Dimmick.
Julian Hanks.
M. M. McCarver.
Francis J. Lippitt.
Rodman M. Price.
Lewis Dent.
Henry Hill.
Ch. T. Botts.
Myron Norton.
J. M. Jones.

P. Sainsevain.

José M. Covarrubias.
Antonio Ma. Pico.

Jacinto Rodriguez.
Stephen C. Foster.
Henry A. Tefft.

J. M. H. Hollingsworth.
Abel Stearns.
Hugh Reid.

Benj. S. Lippincott.
Joel P. Walker.
Jacob R. Snyder.
L. W. Hastings.
Pablo de la Guerra.
José Ant. Carrillo.
Man' Dominguez.
P. Ord.

Edw. Gilbert.
Miguel de Pedrorena.
A. J. Ellis.

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