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A CALIFORNIA TRAMP. 



same amount of fun. The 'town was no larger than on his 

 visit in 1835, and could not well have been smaller. There 

 were two adobe houses and a smith shop on the bank, and a 

 warehouse under the blutf. A steep road ran to the plain 

 above. There was no water near the place, and the few |)eople 

 Hying here depended on a spring some miles inland. 



There were but two vessels in the harbor ; one the " Senator," 

 w^hich was to take us northward, and which I was pleased to 



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San Pedro in 1858. 



see had not gone, and a sailing vessel, both anchored some 

 distance off for fear of being driven ashore by sudden winds. 

 The bay is a dreary sheet of water, surrounded by bleak shores, 

 bare of trees or verdure. On account of the insecurit}^ of the 

 harbor and the labor of moving cargoes, in former times, San 

 Pedro was called by sailors the " Hell of the California coast." 

 The island in the illustration is known as " Dead Man's 

 Rock." Here, over twenty years before, a master of a vessel 



