. The Argonauts of California, being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days;. als, for which reason many cattle dieil,and the emigrants were compelled to finish their journey for hun-dreds of miles on foot. There were numerous deaths from exhaus-tion, starvation and disease, .\fter their arrival in town, however,many died from over-eating, and in some cases it was necessary torestrain them by main force from gorging themselves while at thedinner table. Four young men in town procured horses, and, loading them withprovisions cooked ready for u
. The Argonauts of California, being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days;. als, for which reason many cattle dieil,and the emigrants were compelled to finish their journey for hun-dreds of miles on foot. There were numerous deaths from exhaus-tion, starvation and disease, .\fter their arrival in town, however,many died from over-eating, and in some cases it was necessary torestrain them by main force from gorging themselves while at thedinner table. Four young men in town procured horses, and, loading them withprovisions cooked ready for use, started out to feed the starvingemigrants. .\ few miles from town they encountered an ox team lOb THE OF CALIFORNIA. which was standing in the mad. The driver, a large, powerful man,was seated in the road in the dirt and dust in fri)nt of them gnaw-ing, or rather sucking, a small piece of pork rind, and in the coveredwagon was found the wife and mother, with two or three children,engaged in a similar occupation. It was the last of their supplies,and upon which they had subsisted for the previous two days. The. ^^^iiisy^
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