: Los Gringos Or An Inside View of Mexico and California with Wanderings in Peru Chili and Polynesia by Wise H A Henry Augustus - California Description and travel; Mexico Description and travel; Voyages to the Pacific coast; Polynesia

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PAGE We sail from Boston, and how we felt.--Cure for Sea-Sickness.--Delights of the Ocean.--Crossing the Equator.--What the Mess was composed of.--We become reconciled to our Fate.--Pass Cape Frio, and have no Inclination to bivouac on the Rocks. 1

Rio Janeiro, and what is to be seen there.--Life in the City.--Diamonds and Levites.--Police.--Cookery and Currency.--The Omnibus Jehu to Boto Fogo. 9

Gloria Hill.--Il Cateto.--Architecture.--Visit from a Scorpion, and the Habits of other Reptiles.--The Opera.--The Emperor and Court.--The Brazilians think of carrying the War into Africa. 16

We leave Rio, and march towards the Horn.--Man overboard and drowned.--La Plata.--We take an Albatross.--Terra del Fuego.--Pitch of the Cape.--A Marine dies.--How the Yankee Corvette doubled Cape Horn.--What we did for Pastime.--Dr. Faustus.--The Island of Chiloe. 20

Valparaiso.--Bell of Quillota and Tupongati.--Where and how the Town is built.--Birlochea.--Shops.--The Terraces.--El Almendral.--Carmencita.--Creole Ladies.--Tertulias.--The Samacu?ca.--Climate.--Dust.--The Don?ella who caught a Flea, and how she did it.--General Bulnes.--Army.--Government and Resources.--True Elements of Happiness. 27

Weigh Anchor, with some Trouble and Broken Bones.--Bid adieu to Pleasures of the Shore.--Islands of St. Ambrose and Felix.--We lose some Shipmates.--Alta California.--Monterey. 39

Summary of Events Preceding our Arrival.--Difficulties between Fremont and Castro.--Operations of Naval Forces.--Skirmish at San Pascual.--Battles of San Gabriel and La Mesa.--The Volunteers Disbanded. 41

Town of Monterey.--Our First Impressions.--Days of Barricades.--Sentinels.--The Rocky-Mountain Men.--Keg of Whiskey, and the Use it was put to.--The Trapper's little Anecdote concerning Old Ginger and the Indians. 47

Treaty of Los Angeles.--The Lady that had a Strange Taste In Jewelry.--The Disregard of Soap in those Countries.--Visit to an Extensive Establishment.--The Do?a herself, with her Small Family and Prospects. 53

Mission of Carmelo.--Tramp in the Mountains.--Wolves and Venison.--We become bewildered, but encounter a Guide.--Boudoirs for Damsels.--The Fandango.--How the Gentlemen amused themselves.--We take to Hunting for Pastime.--Climate.--Juaquinito and his Mama.--Plains of Salinas.--Bill Anderson, his Windmill and History.--Wild Geese.--Native Entertainment. 58

Maritime Alps of California.--Entrance to Bay of San Francisco.--Yerbabuena.--Society.--Pranks on Horses.--Saddles.--New York Regiment.--The Cannibal Emigrants, and the Dutchman's Appetite; with Baptiste's Remarks thereon.--Perils of Emigration. 69

Sousoulito.--The Belle of California.--The Bears of the same, who chase us.--Angel Island.--Deer and Elk Shooting. 76

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