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CHAPTER XIV.
Incidents on land and water · D. B. Bates
CHAPTER XIV.
Hotel Keeping and Life in a Canvas Shanty, 137
CHAPTER XV.
Description of an Indian Rancheria and its Occupants, 149
CHAPTER XVI.
A Conflagration. Hotel Keeping resumed. Marysville Inundated, 156
CHAPTER XVII.
A Journey up the Sacramento Valley. Descriptions of things seen and heard, 163
CHAPTER XVIII.
Trip to French Corral. Mountain Scenery. Mountain Ball, etc., 169
CHAPTER XIX.
Journey to Park’s Bar. Experience in Mining. Fatal results of Gambling, 192
CHAPTER XX.
Visit to Gen. Sutter’s residence. Description of the grounds. The Pleasant Surprise, or the Musical Miner. Good Fortune of a Lady in California. Emigrant Wagons. Belles of the Plain. Interesting and Ludicrous Incident. The English Gold Diggers. Loss of Life, 205
CHAPTER XXI.
The Orphan Child. Delights of Stage-Coaching in California. The Hen that laid the Golden Eggs, 222