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dead and so is Wiersbitzkie 's little daughter. Then I 

 read of the excursion of a club to Arnan and how nicely 

 they were caught in a rainstorm. I saw the old 

 "Schwalbe" advertised for an excursion to Tapian; that 

 "Wagner is still giving concerts and that Harpf has re- 

 turned. I also read that the rose festival of the Ger- 

 man Club had to be postponed on account of the inclem- 

 ency of the weather and that reminded me of the Borsen- 

 garten and of the many quiet, pleasant evenings I spent 

 there. 



You can not realize how one who has been away from 

 home three years and a half as I have been longs to see 

 the "dear old home paper." I actually devoured the 

 contents of the Hartung'sche. 



Olias, who spent six days here a few weeks ago, is 

 back again trying to regain his health, which life in the 

 Long Bar mines has badly shattered. He too is tired of 

 mining and wants to give it up completely. I am not at 

 all surprised. Nearly all the money he had saved up till 

 last spring— and he had been rather successful— went for 

 medical assistance during his illness; and sick, as he still 

 is, he cannot see how it will be possible for him to regain 

 what he has lost by making three or four dollars a day. 

 His intention is to stay here for the present and to find 

 a suitable position, if possible. Should he not succeed 

 in that he will leave California and return home while he 

 still has the means to do so. I hear that Emil Boettcher 

 is doing well at Papetee, Society Islands. 



Two months ago there arrived in our harbor an old ac- 

 quaintance of mine from Konigsberg, the schooner "Ex- 

 pedition," Capt. Mueller. Though rigged up as a brig 

 and sailing under the Hawaiian flag, I recognized her the 

 moment I saw her. I remember Mueller from the time he 

 commanded the "Wiedersehen," another ship of Laub- 

 meyer's, and I am very sorry that I could never find him 

 on board, though he had to remain here quite a while, in 

 order to sell the cargo of oranges he had brought from 

 Tahiti. I expect Laubmeyer will shod tears when he re- 

 ceives the account of that transaction. The local market 



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