CHAPTER XII.—Return of T. O. Larkin.—The tall partner in the Californian.—Mexican officers.—The Cyane.—War mementoes.—Drama of Adam and Eve.—Carnival.—Birth-day of Washington.—A California captain.—Application for a divorce.—Arrival of the Columbus 173 CHAPTER XIII.—The people of Monterey.—The guitar and runaway wife.—Mother ordered to flog her son.—Work of the prisoners.—Catching sailors.—Court of Admiralty.—Gamblers caught and fined.—Lifting land boundaries 189 CHAPTER XIV.—A convict who would not work.—Lawyers at Monterey.—Who conquered California.—Ride to a rancho.—Leopaldo.—Party of Californians.—A dash into the forests.—Chasing a deer.—Killing a bear.—Ladies with fire-arms.—A mother and volunteer 199 CHAPTER XV.—A California pic-nic.—Seventy and seventeen in the dance.—Children in the grove.—A California bear-hunt.—The bear and bull bated.—The Russian’s cabbage head 210 CHAPTER XVI.—A Californian jealous of his wife.—Hospitality of the natives.—Honors to Guadalupe.—Application from a Lothario for a divorce.—Capture of Mazatlan.—Larceny of Canton shawls.—An emigrant’s wife claiming to have taken the country.—A wild bullock in Main-street 220 CHAPTER XVII.—Rains in California.—Functions of the alcalde of Monterey.—Orphans in California.—Slip of the gallows rope.—Making a father whip his boy.—A convict as prison cook.—The Kanacka.—Thom. Cole.—A man robbing himself.—A blacksmith outwitted 230 CHAPTER XVIII.—First discovery of gold.—Prison guard.—Incredulity about the gold.—Santiago getting married.—Another lump of gold.—Effects of the gold fever.—The court of an alcalde.—Mosquitoes as constables.—Bob and his bag of gold.—Return of citizens from the mines.—A man with the gold cholic.—The mines on individual credit 242 CHAPTER XIX.—Tour to the gold mines.—Loss of horses.—First night in the woods.—Arrival at San Juan.—Under way.—Camping out.—Bark of the wolves.—Watch-fires.—San José.—A fresh start.—Camping on the slope of a hill.—Wild features of the country.—Valley of the San Joaquin.—Band of wild horses 257 CHAPTER XX.—The grave of a gold-hunter.—Mountain spurs.—A company of Sonoranians.—A night alarm.—First view of the mines.—Character of the deposits.—A woman and her pan.—Removal to other mines.—Wild Indians and their weapons.—Cost of provisions.—A plunge into a gold river.—Machines used by the gold-diggers 269