. A California tramp and later footprints; or, Life on the plains and in the Golden state thirty years ago, with miscellaneous sketches in prose and verse ... Illustrated with thirty-nine wood and photo-engravings. Overland journeys to the Pacific; Agriculture. 204 A CALIFORNIA TRAMP. same amount of fun. The 'town was no larger than on his visit in 1835, and could not well have been smaller. There were two adobe houses and a smith shop on the bank, and a warehouse under the blutf. A steep road ran to the plain above. There was no water near the place, and the few |)eople Hying here depended on
. A California tramp and later footprints; or, Life on the plains and in the Golden state thirty years ago, with miscellaneous sketches in prose and verse ... Illustrated with thirty-nine wood and photo-engravings. Overland journeys to the Pacific; Agriculture. 204 A CALIFORNIA TRAMP. same amount of fun. The 'town was no larger than on his visit in 1835, and could not well have been smaller. There were two adobe houses and a smith shop on the bank, and a warehouse under the blutf. A steep road ran to the plain above. There was no water near the place, and the few |)eople Hying here depended on a spring some miles inland. There were but two vessels in the harbor; one the " Senator," w^hich was to take us northward, and which I was pleased to .^fc. San Pedro in 1858. see had not gone, and a sailing vessel, both anchored some distance off for fear of being driven ashore by sudden winds. The bay is a dreary sheet of water, surrounded by bleak shores, bare of trees or verdure. On account of the insecurit}^ of the harbor and the labor of moving cargoes, in former times, San Pedro was called by sailors the " Hell of the California ; The island in the illustration is known as " Dead Man's ; Here, over twenty years before, a master of a vessel. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kenderdine, Thaddeus S. Newton, Pa. [Philadelphia, Press of Globe printing house]
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