[36] W. M. Fisher, “The Californians.”
[37] Mrs. D. B. Bates, “Incidents on Land and Water.”
[38] J. M. Letts, “California Illustrated.”
[39] “Our Italy.”
[40] This quality seems to have persisted, if we can trust Mr. Rudyard Kipling, who wrote in the year 1899: “San Francisco is a mad city.... Recklessness is in the air. I can’t explain where it comes from, but there it is. The roaring winds off the Pacific make you drunk, to begin with.”
[41] Stephen J. Field, “Personal Reminiscences of California.”
[42] William Grey, “Pioneer Times in California.”
[43] See the San Francisco “Herald” of May 19, 1856.
[44] D. B. Woods, “Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings.”
[45] The Captain calmly directed the transfer of the women and children, kept his place on the paddle-box, and went down with the others. He was James Lewis Herndon, a Commander in the United States Navy, and the explorer of the Amazon. A monument to his memory was erected by brother officers in the grounds of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. The steamer was bringing $2,000,000 in gold, and the loss of this treasure increased the commercial panic then prevailing in the Atlantic States.