. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. -of the outfits improvised from the sahage of thewrecks on the plains, similar to our own, but worse,would have been quite amusing, had they not told soserious a story. It was no uncommon thing to seeemigrants—perhaps families—come in off the plainshaving all their worldly effects that they had been able THE SAtKAMKNTO Al 75 to save packed in an abbreviated cart drawn b\ a ca\-iise harnessed with a cow or an ox, or c\ en upon tlieback of a sinule ox or D—N THE HUMBOLDT! This camp was at Lassens ranc
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. -of the outfits improvised from the sahage of thewrecks on the plains, similar to our own, but worse,would have been quite amusing, had they not told soserious a story. It was no uncommon thing to seeemigrants—perhaps families—come in off the plainshaving all their worldly effects that they had been able THE SAtKAMKNTO Al 75 to save packed in an abbreviated cart drawn b\ a ca\-iise harnessed with a cow or an ox, or c\ en upon tlieback of a sinule ox or D—N THE HUMBOLDT! This camp was at Lassens ranch, where Peter Las-sen had erected a log cabin, and was keeping a smallstock of staple goods. This was the first sign of ci\ -ilization we had seen for many a da}. It was a motleyscene of emigrants, Indians, old-time Californians, etc.,that greeted our \ ision. Not many rods awa\- flowedthe poetic river—the Sacramento,—of whose ^glitter-ing sands we had sung upon leaving home. We werenot long in hastening down to gaze upon its crystal,magic waters. It was a moment of strange, deep,soul-stirring emotions as we flrst stepped upon itsbanks. Was this indeed our journeys end.^—this thegoal of our man}- weary days, weeks, and months oftoil, privation, Had we undergone some Pytha-gorian transformation of soul, we could scarce ha\ efelt more strange, fanciful, etherial. The eleventh da}of October! Yes, seven months and nineteen dayssince we began the journey. It had been a trul} event-ful in lifes brief span; an episode of
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