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Chagres River--Curiosity--Isthmus of Panama--Washington Hotel--Ants--A Native of Virginia--Gold Train--Robbery--Panama Bells--An Emigrant Ship--An Affecting Preacher--San Francisco 1

A Great Country--Improvement--Adventurers--Drinking-Saloons--The Old Judge--Banks--Mine Speculators--Gambling Houses--"Don't Shoot"--Climate--High and Dry 21

Benicia--Barnes--A Mad Bloodhound--His Death--Grasshoppers--Don Raymond--A Blessed City--Wicked Mules--"Camping Out"--Napa--Fourth of July--Agriculturists--Sonoma--Competition--An Irascible Bull 39

Spanish Grants--Squatters--Squatter Fights--A Spanish Ranche--Good Quarters--Fleas--Vanity--Vaccaros--Quilp--English Saddles--Antelope Hunt--Rattle-Snakes--Quilp Waltzes--Californian Horses--Saddles--Horse-Breaking--A Tame Horse 58

Spanish Priests--Indians--Quilp forgets himself--Habits of Native Californians--Father Bartolem?o--The Lasso--Good Riders--Cattle Branding--Raymond provides Mules--Russian River--We Encamp--Saw-mill--I propose to "Squat" 78

The Little Valley--Three Martyrs--Mountain Life--The Poor Does--Castor-oil--A Sick Dog--The Carpentaro--Grey Squirrel--Digger Indians--Red-wood Tree--American Rifles--Grizzly Bear Hunt--Sheldon Wounded--Difficulty in Killing the Bear--Habits of the Bear--A Thief 97

Deer Hunting--Wild Bulls--Wild Fowl--A Duck Gun--Driving an Ox-Team--I Reflect--An Estampede--The Tiger Cat--Rainy Season--Indian Fires--Wasps--We are Robbed by the Indians--I kill a Bear--Crossing a Swollen River 122

Quilp departs for the South--San Luis--Ramsey--I am left for Dead--The Early History of California--Discovery of San Francisco--Spanish Missions--A Digression--Digression, continued--A Rainy Season--A Little Crab 144

The Old Crab-Catcher--Mr. Warren--American Friendship--The American Press--Education in America--Americans Good Colonists--Californian Correspondence 164

Long Wharf--Clipper Ships--Chinese Emigrants--The May Fire--An Exciting Scene--Iron Houses--Vallejo--The Coyote--Wild Geese 180

Another Fire--My Geological Friend--"Burnt Out"--Sacramento--Levee-- Hulks--Rats--Vigilance Committee--Start for Volcano--Crocket--"Right Side Up" 216

An Old She-goat--Our Mineralogist--Gold Diggers--Murderer's Bar--The Theorist puzzled--Mining Laws--Jumping Claims--The Miner's Life--"Let her slide"--Hostile Indians--We are disgusted--Fire-proof Houses 231

Joe Bellow--Stockton--A Bear Trapper--Bear and Bull Fights--An Uneasy Bear--Californian Inns--Natural Roads--Good Driving--I Kill a Flea--Sonora--The Evening commences--French Emigrants--A Drinking Bar--Number Eighty--A Corral and a Moral 248

The Gold Mine--The Innocence of Sonora--Sunday in Sonora--Selling a Horse--Carrying Weapons--Bob--We leave Vallejo--We are "Bound to go"--The Shadow of a Crow 269

I explain to the Patient Reader--Pioneers--A Lady's Boot--Mainspring--Mexican Robbers--Victims of Prejudice--Works on America--Two Pigs--Power of the Human Will 286

Yield of Gold--Its Duration--Mormon Gulch--The Distribution of Gold--Tunnelling--Damming Rivers--Holden's Garden--Energy in the Mines--Quartz Mines--Quartz Mining successful--The Author gets out of his Depth 304

Transport Machinery to the Mine--The Carpenter Judge, and Constable Rowe--Cut-throat Jack--Greasers--French Miners--John Chinaman--Chinese Ferocity--The Feast of Lanterns--Chinese Despotism--False Sympathy 323

The Firemen of San Francisco--"We strive to Save"--A Barber's Saloon--Oysters--Places of Amusement--A Pickled Head--Shooting on Sight 341

Rat-Catchers--Drays--Crested Partridge--A Marvellous Story--Sailors in the Mines--A Verdict--The Quartz has the best of it--I leave Tuttle-town 356

Advice to Emigrants--Gold Countries--Self-Doctoring--Advice continued--I arrive at Stockton 373

Elections--Executions--Reforms--Exiles--"Know Nothings"--Testimonials--Speaking Trumpets--Ocean Steamers--Life-Buoys--Air-Boats--Confidence necessary--Fitting a Raft--A Suggestion 387

"Hercules" fails--Land Crabs--Mr. Bobbins--Rushing the Ship--New York 406

Yellow Fever--A Wooden Head--Hard Times--A Gale--We Spring a Leak--Acapulco--Smuggling--Cholera--Conclusion 417

ERRATUM.

LIST OF PLATES.

DRAWN ON STONE BY MESSRS. HANHART, FROM DESIGNS BY FRANK MARRYAT.

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HIGH AND DRY 37

CHAGRES RIVER 92

WINTER OF 1849 162

BAR ROOM AT SONORA 224

HORSE AUCTION 274

SAN FRANCISCO--A FIREMAN'S FUNERAL 344

CROSSING THE ISTHMUS 406

LIST OF WOODCUTS.

DRAWN ON WOOD BY MR. L. C. MARTIN, FROM DESIGNS BY FRANK MARRYAT.

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VACCARO AND INDIAN 67

QUILP 74

CAMPING OUT 95

THE THREE MARTYRS 101

THE SHOOTING BOX 103

ROWE'S LOT 208

A PROSPECTER 232

THE SONORA STAGE 259

THE UMBRELLA 282

OLD SOLDIER AND CHOCKTAW 283

THE LADY'S BOOT 292

THE CARPENTER JUDGE 328

FRENCH MINER 330

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