SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA. 505 
The character of the coast, whenever we were near 
enough to see it, was much the same as that from 
Mazatlan to Acapulco. Barren and rugged mountains 
rose abruptly from the sea, exhibiting a most dreary 
and forbidding aspect. 
February Wi. We entered the bay of San Diego 
last night, about 11 o’clock. 1 was landed by a boat 
at the Playa, and took lodgings at a small house near 
the beach. This place is situated just within Point 
Loma, and is about a mile from the sea. The steamers 
merely run in and leave the mail. Sometimes they are 
obliged to take in a supply of coal to enable them to 
reach San Francisco, still nearly six hundred miles dis- 
tant. I had now made a sea voyage of 1300 miles from 
Guaymas to Acapulco, and of 2000 miles from the lat- 
ter place to San Diego. The first trip occupied twenty- 
six days including stops ; the latter but five days. 
After breakfast I procured a wagon to take me and 
my baggage to the town of San Diego, five miles up 
the bay. Here 1 learned that the surveying parties 
from the Gila had preceded me, and were three miles 
farther up at a small settlement. Continuing my ride, 
I reached the village at 10 o’clock, where 1 was first 
met by my excellent friend Colonel Craig, commander 
of our escort. He informed me that they had felt much 
anxiety on my account, as nothing had been heard 
from me after I left Santa Cruz about the 1st October; 
and fears were entertaine’d that we had all been cut 
off by the Indians. No word had been heard from 
Dr. Webb and his party, which left me at Ures on the 
16th December. The parties under Mr. Gray and 
Lieutenant Whipple had arrived on the 10th of January. 
