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thirty dollars ; deck twenty dollars ; a berth, five dol- 

 lars; meals, two dollars. The larger steamer "Sen- 

 ator," familiar to all California pioneers, soon made its 

 appearance. The first steamer ever upon the waters of 

 the bay of San Francisco was a small boat about the 

 size of a ship's boat, taken from Sitka in 1847, t»y Cap- 

 tain W. A. Leidesdorfif, and run on the bay until Feb- 

 ruary, 1848, when she was lost during a severe north- 

 west gale. 



