Jbh tn tfu Waiter. 
I HAVE, in these pages, endeavored to convey a correct im¬ 
pression, I "have stated such, facts only as I knew to be facts, 
and/ interspersed them with incidents that fell under my own 
observation. A season’s residence in the mineral regions enabled 
me to obtain a correct interior view of life in California. The 
illustrations are truthful, and can be relied upon as faithfully 
portraying the scenes they are designed to represent. They 
were drawn upon the spot, and in order to preserve character¬ 
istics, even the attitudes of the individuals represented are truth¬ 
fully given. The first part of this volume is written in a con¬ 
cise manner, with a view to brevity, as the reader is presumed 
to be anxious to make the shortest possible passage to the 
Eldorada. 
THE AUTHOR, 
