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California illustrated : $b including a description of the Panama and Nicaragua routes — John Shaqi

California illustrated : $b including a description of the Panama and Nicaragua routesLetts, J. M. (John M.)

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California illustrated : $b including a description of the Panama and Nicaragua routes

Name: California illustrated : $b including a description of the Panama and Nicaragua routes
Author: Letts, J. M. (John M.)

Letts, J. M. (John M.)

California -- Gold discoveries; California -- Social life and customs; Law -- Political aspects -- California; Voyages to the Pacific coast

[Illustration:

C. V. COOPER DEL.
ON STONE BY J. CAMERON
LITH. OF C. W. LEWIS III NASSAU ST. N.Y.
PART OF SAN FRANCISCO,
_from a sketch by G. W. Casilear_
]

                        CALIFORNIA ILLUSTRATED:

                               INCLUDING

                             A DESCRIPTION

                                OF THE

                     PANAMA AND NICARAGUA ROUTES.

                                  BY

                        A RETURNED CALIFORNIAN.

                               New York:
                     WILLIAM HOLDREDGE, PUBLISHER,
                        NO. 140 FULTON STREET.

                                 1852.

        Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852,

                            BY J. M. LETTS,

          In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the
                    Southern District of New York.

                E. O. JENKINS, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER,
                   No. 114 Nassau Street, New York.

                                  TO

                         Miss Hetta P. Letts,

                                  OF

                      _Wood Lawn, Staten Island_,

                             THIS JOURNAL

                                  IS

                     Most Respectfully Dedicated,

                                  BY

                              THE AUTHOR.

Note to the Reader.

I have, in these pages, endeavored to convey a correct impression, 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 characteristics, _even the attitudes_ of the individuals
represented are truthfully given. The first part of this volume is
written in a concise 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.

Contents.

                                                                    Page

CHAPTER FIRST.--Sail from New York--Our Pilot leaves us--Land recedes
from View--Sea-Sickness--A Whale--Enter the Gulf Stream--Encounter a
Gale--Enter the Tropic of Cancer--“Land, ho!”--Caycos and Turk’s
Islands--St. Domingo--Cuba--Enter the Caribbean
Sea--Sporting--Sunday--Standing in for the Port of Chagres--Beautiful
Scene--Drop Anchor,                                                    9

CHAPTER SECOND.--Natives and “Bungoes”--Crescent City arrives--We sail
into the mouth of the River--Prepare for a Fight--Fashions and
Fortifications--An honest Alcalde--Non-fulfillment of Contracts,      13

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