Mule-hunting Expedition from Vancouver Island to San Francisco—The Almaden Quicksilver Mines—Poison-oak and its Antidote 199 CHAPTER IX. Sacramento—Stockton—Californian Ground-squirrels— Grass-valley—Stage Travelling—Hydraulic Washings— Nevada—Marysville—Up the Sacramento River to Red Bluffs—A dangerous Bath 221 CHAPTER X. The Start from Red Bluffs—Mishaps by the Way—Devil’s Pocket—Adventure at Yreka—Field-crickets—The Californian Quail—Singular Nesting of Bullock’s Oriole 245 CHAPTER XI. Crossing the Klamath River—How to Swim Mules—Sis-kyoue Indians—Emigrant Ford—Trout Baling—A Beaver Town—Breeding-grounds of the Pelicans and various Water-birds—Pursued by Klamath Indians—Interview with Chief—The Desert—Prong-horned Antelopes—Acorns and Woodpeckers—Yellow-headed Blackbirds—Snake Scout—Arrival at Camp of Commission—End of Journal 268 CHAPTER XII. Sharp-tailed Grouse—Bald-headed Eagle—Mosquitos—Lagomys Minimus (Nov. Sp.)—Hummingbirds—Urotrichus 300 CHAPTER XIII. The Aplodontia Leporina. (Rich.) 346 ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THE FIRST VOLUME. The Kettle Falls: a Salmon Leap on the Upper Columbia _vignette_ A group of Spokan Indians _frontispiece_ Viviparous Fish _to face page_ 106 Sturgeon-spearing 〃 〃 185 Sharp-tailed Grouse 〃 〃 300 North-Western Hummingbirds 〃 〃 328 Urotrichus 〃 〃 338 Aplodontia, or Ou-ka-la 〃 〃 346 ERRATA IN VOL. I.