Crusoe's island . ViEUlNIA CITY. 374 A PEEP AT WASHOE. sort, variety, and numbers, that the famous ant-hills ofAfrica were as nothing in the comparison. To say thatthey were rough, muddy, unkempt and unwashed, wouldbe but faintly expressive of their actual appearance;they were all this by reason of exposure to the weather;but they seemed to have caught the very diabolical tintand grime of the whole place. Here and there, to besure, a San Francisco dandy of the boiled shirt and stove-pipe pattern loomed up in proud consciousnessof the triumphs of art under adverse circumstances, butthey were me
Crusoe's island . ViEUlNIA CITY. 374 A PEEP AT WASHOE. sort, variety, and numbers, that the famous ant-hills ofAfrica were as nothing in the comparison. To say thatthey were rough, muddy, unkempt and unwashed, wouldbe but faintly expressive of their actual appearance;they were all this by reason of exposure to the weather;but they seemed to have caught the very diabolical tintand grime of the whole place. Here and there, to besure, a San Francisco dandy of the boiled shirt and stove-pipe pattern loomed up in proud consciousnessof the triumphs of art under adverse circumstances, butthey were merely peacocks in the barn-yard. A fraction of the crowd, as we entered the precinctsof the town, were engaged in a lawsuit relative to aquestion of title. The arguments used on both sideswere empty whisky-bottles, after the fashion of the Ba-silinum, or club law, which, according to Addison, pre-vailed in the colleges of learned men in former of the disputants had already been knockeddown and convinc
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