TRAVELS IN THE CALIFORNIAS. 
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I got a passage to Sitka, Northwest America, where, after 
five months’ working for the Russians, I was permitted to go 
away in the brig Baicaland was discharged in San Francisco. 
“ John Warner, of Scotland.” 
The next event in this poor fellow’s life was his impri¬ 
sonment in California. His sufferings there were scarcely 
less than those he had endured elsewhere. The names of 
his companions at Macao appear in the list of prisoners 
which was given in the previous chapter. 
The 19th was an exciting day. More of my countrymen 
and others, allied by the blood of a common ancestry, were 
arriving from the interior in irons. As soon as they came in 
town they were taken in front of the prisons, pulled vio¬ 
lently from their horses by Indians, and frequently much 
bruised by the fall. Their tormentors then searched them, 
took forcible possession of their money, knives, flints, steels, 
and every other little valuable about their persons, and 
thrust them into prison. About eleven o’clock, A. M., the 
American called on the governor to learn the cause of this 
treatment, and was informed that there had been considera¬ 
ble conversation among the prisoners for months past, about 
a being abused by the government,” and that threats had 
been made about “going to the governor for justice,” and 
other things of that kind, which rendered ti necessary for the 
peace of the country to get them out of it, or into their graves. 
The American replied, that the treaty stipulations between 
the governments of the United States and Mexico required 
the authorities of each country to treat the citizens of the 
other with kindness and justice. 
His Excellentissimo replied, that the government of the 
Californjas would not be restrained in its action by treaties 
which the central government might make; and that if the 
department of the Californias should violate such compact 
with the United States, that government would seek redress 
from Mexico; that the Californian government was the mere 
