. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. and under cover of night, for the supposed hostile landing was made arid the rancheria surroundedbefore daylight, without our being discovered. OneCaptain Smith, an old, ponderous rustic, a typicalKaintuck, was our commander, and he proved him-self to know about as much of military tactics as WANTON SAVAGERY. I33 a Digger would know of belles-lettres. Before itwas fairly dawn we were ordered to fire upon the mis-erable shacks. The surprise was complete, and asquickly as the affrighted Diggers could craw
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. and under cover of night, for the supposed hostile landing was made arid the rancheria surroundedbefore daylight, without our being discovered. OneCaptain Smith, an old, ponderous rustic, a typicalKaintuck, was our commander, and he proved him-self to know about as much of military tactics as WANTON SAVAGERY. I33 a Digger would know of belles-lettres. Before itwas fairly dawn we were ordered to fire upon the mis-erable shacks. The surprise was complete, and asquickly as the affrighted Diggers could crawl out theyscampered for the nearest brush. Several of themwere shot down as they ran. One big buck was per-forated with sixteen a Ion Of heart-rend- dians were utterlytheir pitiable plightrestrain our valor-ing down on thethem of e\ erytliingany value, and thenthe torch. In ran-a h a 1 f-g r o w n boyaway, and waslittle fellow beggedlife; but he wasn o t w i t h s that thesethought of attack-they had no connec-R i \ e r m u r d e r s;over the anticipat-. KI-WE-LAT-TAH, ! The women now set uping moan. The In-defeuseless; butdid not in the leastous men from rush-huts, plunderingthat was deemed ofputting the rest tosacking the lodges,was found hiddendragged out. Thepiteously for hiscoolly shot turned out ulti-Indians h a d noing the whites; thattion with the Eeland that the scareed war of extermi- nation was based upon the veriest moonshine. Thesavages themselves, it may be added, could scarcely 1 Redrawn from a photograph of a life-size painting owned by the late Vood, at Areata, Cal. Ki-wc-lat-tah was a noted chief of the HumboldtBay Indians, whose massive and dignified ngure I saw many times, and whowas one of the very few of his race that commanded the general respect andconfidence of the whites. I am indebted to David VVood (son) for the photo-graph used. 134 RAPID DEVELOPMENT. have exhibited a more fiendish rehsh for rapine a
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