Four Months Among the Gold-Finders in Alta California / Being the Diary of an Expedition From San Francisco to the Gold Districts

by Henry Vizetelly

FOUR MONTHS AMONG THE GOLD-FINDERS IN ALTA CALIFORNIA

BEING THE DIARY OF AN EXPEDITION FROM
SAN FRANCISCO TO THE GOLD DISTRICTS.

By

J. TYRWHITT BROOKS, M.D.

PREFACE.

The accompanying diary—some interesting circumstances connected with which will be found in a letter given at the end of the present volume—was sent home by the Author merely for the entertainment of the members of his own family and a few private friends. It has been submitted to the public in the hope that, as an authentic record of a variety of interesting particulars connected with the original discovery and present condition of the Gold Districts of California, it will not fail to prove acceptable.

London, 1849.

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CHAPTER I.