SCENES IN THE PACIFIC. 
Jones, Jonathan Christian, William Chay, William Dictrwy, 
Charles Williams, Alvan Willson. 
CHAPTER V. 
THE PRISONRES. 
Forty-one of the prisoners whose names appear on the 
concluding pages of the last Chapter, furnished me with 
written accounts of their arrest, and subsequent treatment. 
Believing that the reader will be more interested in these, 
than in any abstract that could be made of them, I will trans¬ 
cribe a few which best illustrate this barbarous persecution. 
u I, Is^ac Graham, a citizen of the United States of Ame¬ 
rica, came across the continent to California, with a pass¬ 
port from the Mexican authorities of Chihuahua, and ob¬ 
tained from the General commanding in Upper California, 
a license to run a distillery in that country, for the term of 
eight years ; this business I have followed since that time. 
u On the sixth of April last (1840) there appeared to be 
mischief brewing. But what it would prove to be, none of 
us could tell. The Californian Spaniards travelled usually 
much about the country ; and conversed with the foreigners 
rather shyly. They had threatened to drive us out of Califor¬ 
nia several times ; and we tried to guess whether they were 
at last preparing to accomplish it. But from what we saw 
it was impossible to form a satisfactory conclusion. 
u On the same day, how r ever, Jose Castro, Bicenta Con- 
trine, Ankel Castro, and a runaway Botany Bay English con¬ 
vict, by the name of Garner, a vile fellowq and an enemy ot 
mine, because the foreigners would not elect him their cap¬ 
tain, passed and repassed my house several times, and con- 
