. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. pure water; majestic mountains i-()untlnbout;and, witlial, a \ eritable hunters paradise. We a^ ailedoursehes of these raix- ad\ antages for scn eral davs, 1 The male Diggers of California, atthatday, usually went entirely nude, onlyas they might have happened to don a hat. a shirt, or some other gar-ment ofthe whites that they had picked np. Thesquaws wore from the waist toa little below the knees a sort of skirt made of tanned skins, doubled the longerway, and all except the width ofabout twoinchtsfo
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. pure water; majestic mountains i-()untlnbout;and, witlial, a \ eritable hunters paradise. We a^ ailedoursehes of these raix- ad\ antages for scn eral davs, 1 The male Diggers of California, atthatday, usually went entirely nude, onlyas they might have happened to don a hat. a shirt, or some other gar-ment ofthe whites that they had picked np. Thesquaws wore from the waist toa little below the knees a sort of skirt made of tanned skins, doubled the longerway, and all except the width ofabout twoinchtsfor a waist-belt, cut into shoe-strings, with shellsand other ornaments dangling at the nether ends. Thestrings of this skirt, or cincture, were sometimes elaborately plaited or woven,and decorated with beads, colored grasses, and various kinds of plumage. Thewomen generally wore what Prof. (). T. described as the daintiest capin the world, a hemispherical bowl of basketry made of tough fibre twined withthe greatest nicety and embroidered in blacl>, brown, sind 1^ A BAD STKEPCH OF ROAD. but mainly with the view to prepare for the exigenciesthat we were forewarned were immediately to from this point to the Sacramento Valley, someseventy-five miles, the country was, practically speak-ing, destitute of both feed and water. Over much ofthis distance, the track crept along on the crest ofa very narrow% tortuous divide, or hogback, between buried downcipitous can-than two thou-At one point,came so ob-craggy, beet-that it coulded at all; thus the deflection through a deepzQ b o t t o m of ^compelled tonight, withouttor our stock, ^,the sage-brushfor fuel.^ A DIGGER BELLE.—(FROM A PHO- • , C t. \ TOGHAPH.) ^Pite of the darkness, and by dint of heroic effort, succeeded inpicking his way to the creek^ at the bottom of the can- two s t r e a m sin dark, pre-y o n s, moresand feet deep,the crest be-structed wnthling ledgesnot be follow-necessitatingof the t
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