IV 
PREFACE. 
theme. Upper and Lower California, their conquest by the Spaniards, 
Indians, white inhabitants, their present state, surface, vegetation, 
streams, plains, mountains, volcanoes, animals—all these as they have 
been, and now are, will be found fully described. To what I have seen 
has been added authentic information from every known source. And 
now, dear reader, to your task. Mine is done. Should you laugh and 
weep, suffer and rejoice, with the actors in the wayfarings before you, 
and send your fancy in after-times over those rose-clad realms where 
they will lead you, and feel the dews of a pleasant remembrance falling 
on your life, I shall receive a full reward for my toil. 
Adieu, 
THE AUTHOR. 
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
The editor of this new Pictorial Edition of Farnam’s “ Adventures,” 
has added a History of the Conquest of California, from official documents 
and other authentic materials. He has also added a summary account of 
the most recent and celebrated “ Travels in Oregon,” including a descrip¬ 
tion of that new and important addition to our national domain. He has 
also added fifty-three pages of embellishments appropriate to the several 
subjects treated in the volume. 
The reader will perceive that, thus au 
that is important and interesting to all who feel desirous to watch the on- 
ward march of the Great Republic. 
gmented, the work contains much 
