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Murray/ to leave our things and find a place to 

 put our horses. He received us most kindly, his 

 wife setting before us some excellent venison, and 

 the first real bread and butter we had seen since we 

 left New Orleans, to all of which we did complete 

 justice. The Lieutenant apologized for not giv- 

 ing me a bed, following this up by the presenta- 

 tion of a pillow, and regrets that he could do noth- 

 ing better than this and his floor. I had my 

 blankets and was soon comfortably asleep under 

 the first roof I had slept under since we departed 

 from Jesus Maria. 



'Lieut. Ord^ lay next me, and this morning left 

 for the steamer bound for San Francisco, and I 

 went to the office for letters, but found none, so set 

 to work to get provisions ready for the company. 



Five miles from San Diego is the bay, beautiful 

 enough on one side, but opposite are long islands of 

 flat land, and the view ends in distant hills far 

 below, no doubt the coast line. Here I saw many 

 old acquaintances among the birds, the brown peli- 

 can wheels and plunges for his prey, as on the 

 Gulf of Mexico, terns, curlews (the long-billed), 



^ Edward Murray, at this time a lieutenant, resigned from 

 the service in 1855, ^^^ ^^^ afterwards an officer in the Con- 

 federate army. 



2 Edward O. C. Ord (18 18-1883), at this time a first lieu- 

 tenant, later a major general in the Civil War. His long and 

 distinguished service gives his name a place in every Ameri- 

 can cyclopaedia and biographical dictionary. 



