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CHAPTER SIXTEENTH.—The Mormons—The attempted Murder of Gov. Boggs—Canalling 
Mormon Bar—False Theories in reference to Gold Deposits—Influence of Amasa Lyman, “ the 
Prophet”—Exciting Scene—Jim returns—A Monte Bank ‘‘Tapped”—Jim’s Advent at Sacra¬ 
mento City,. .... 95 
CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH—False Reports and their Influences—Daily Average—Abun¬ 
dance of Gold—Original Deposit—“ Coyotaing”—Sailors—Their Success and Noble Character¬ 
istics—Theatrical Tendencies—Jack in the After-Piece—Miners on a “ Spree”—The Wrong 
Tent,.101 
CHAPTER EIGHTEENTH.—Arrivals—Preparation for the Rainy Season—New Discoveries 
—Coloma—Gamblers versus Bayonets—“ Hangtown”—Public Executions—Fashionable En¬ 
tertainments—Wild Cattle—Dangerous Sporting—Murdered Indians—The Wrongs they 
suffer, ...• 107 
CHAPTER NINETEENTH.—Canalling operations—Unsuccessful Experiments—Coffee- 
Mills and Gold Washers—Formation of Bars—Gold removed from the Mountains during the 
Rainy Season—Snow on the Mountains, and its Dissolution—Rise and Fall of the River— 
Stock Speculations—Quicksilver Machines—Separation of Gold and Quicksilver—Individual 
Enterprise—Incentives to Exertion—Expenses,.113 
CHAPTER TWENTIETH.—Commotion in the Political Elements—California a State—Sla¬ 
very Prohibited—Political Campaign, and the Rainy Season—Speech of a Would-be-Governor 
—Enthusiasm and Brandy—Election Districts—Ballot-Boxes and Umbrellas—Miners in a 
Transition State—Preparations for the Rainy Season—Primitive Habitations—Trade Improv¬ 
ing—Advent of the Rainy Season—Its Terrific Effects—Rapid Rise of the River—Machines 
destroyed—Arrivals—My Store and Bed—A Business Suit—Distressing Groans—The Bottle a 
Consolation—Several Strange Specimens of'Humanity cooking Breakfast—The Scurvy—A 
Death,.118 
CHAPTER TWENTY"-FIRST.—Dangerous Navigation—A Trip over the Falls—A Night 
from Home—Sailor Hospitality—Scarcity of Provisions—A Hazardous Alternative—A Way¬ 
ward Boy—Preparations for leaving the Interior—Distribution rf Effects—Our Traveling Suit 
—Start for San Francisco—Farewell—Three Individuals under a Full Head of Steam—Arri¬ 
val at the “Half-Way Tent”—Poor Accommodations—A Morning Walk and Poor Breakfast— 
Wading Lagoons—Wild Geese—Arrival at the American River—Our Toilet, and entry into 
Sacramento City, . .123 
CHAPTER TWENTY-SECOND—A Dry Suit—Restaurants—Waiters and Champagne- 
Two Individuals “Tight”—A $10 Dinner—‘Monte Banks and Mud—Gambling and its Re¬ 
sults—Growth of Sacramento City—Unparalleled Prosperity—A Revulsion and its Cause— 
The Flood,.130 
CHAPTER TWENTY-THIRD.—Sail for San Franoisco—A Fleet—Mud—Prosperity—Ships 
and Storehouses—Buoyant Seas—Shoals in Business—Revulsion and Fire—Their Conse¬ 
quences—Sail for Santa Barbara—The Town—Dexterous Feat by a Grizzly Bear—Fashions— 
Sail for St. Lucas—Porpoises and Sea Fowls—Their Sports—Approach the town—Peculiar 
Sky—Caverns in the Sea—Cactus—Beautiful Sea Shells—Sail for Acapulco—Magnificent 
Scenery—Volcanos and Cascades—Volcanos at Night—Eternal Snow, .... . 134 
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOURTH.—Acapulco—The Tree of Love—Bathing and Females—A 
Californian in a Tight Place—Earthquakes—Sail for Realejo—Volcano Viejo —Its Devastating 
Eruption—Realejo and Harbor—A Cart and its Passengers—A Wall-street Financier fleeced— 
Chinandega—Its beautiful Arbors—Bathing—Preparing Tortillos—Leon—Its magnificence 
and desolation—Don Pedro Vaca and Family,.142 
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIFTH.—A Problem in Mathematics worked out with a Cane—Pueblo 
Nueva—Cultivating the Acquaintance of a Horse—Looking for the Rider—An “Old Salt” 
stuck in the Mud—Uncomfortable Night’s Rest—Nagarotes—Lake Leon and the surrounding 
Volcanos— Matares—Delightful Country—Managua—Don Jose Maria Rivas—Nindaree— 
Ruins of a Volcano—A Long Individual in Spurs—A Dilemma—One of my Horse’s Legs in 
motion—A Boy in a Musical Mood—Entry into Massaya—Bloomerism, .... 151 
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIXTH.—Massaya—The Carnival—Female Labors—Gourds—Maid¬ 
ens consigned to a Volcano—A Donkey “ non est ''—Ox versus Donkey—Same Medicine pre¬ 
scribed—Lake Nicaragua—Grenada—A “ Priest” in a Convent—“Our” Horse—A Group of 
Islands—Cross the Lake—Mr. Derbyshire’s Plantation—Breakfast—Bullocks stepping on 
Board—Sail for San Carlos—Magnificent Scene—A Hymn of Thanks—A Mountain City— 
Gold Mines—Arrival at San Carlos—Custom House Regulations repudiated, . . .157 
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVENTH.—Passage down the San Juan River—Castilian Rapids— 
The “Director”—Arrival at San Juan—Boarded by a Posse of Negroes—British Protectorate— 
Philanthropy of Great Britain—Her Magnanimous and Disinterested Conduct towards the 
Nations of the Earth—Nicaragua graciously remembered—A Hunt for a Sovereign—A Full- 
Grown King Discovered—His Diplomacy—Invincibility—Amusements and Coronation—His 
First Pair of Pantaloons—Hail “Kingof the Mosquito Coast”! !!—All hail, Jamaca I.! !!— 
“ Hear ! hear !!!”.163 
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHTH.—Sail for Home—Pass the “Golden Gate”—Sad Condition 
of the Passengers—Graves at the Base of the Snowy Mountains—Land Recedes—Luxuries on 
