. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. halt was athouse, onm en to-Co-mile or twolatter place,the Moun-Home,sort of tav-i n g - p o s tMy chiefwhile herehouse 1 o gf seach anddollars p e rlatter SOME INFELICITOUS RECOLLECTIONS. 93 ory-buggy-worm\ bread. Flour was two dollars perpound, and a \ illainous article at that, the most of ithaving made the \oyage round Cape Horn and heatedin the ships hold. Potatoes were eight dollars perpound, the chief use to which they were put being asa cure for scur\ \, which complaint was then quite The lo
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. halt was athouse, onm en to-Co-mile or twolatter place,the Moun-Home,sort of tav-i n g - p o s tMy chiefwhile herehouse 1 o gf seach anddollars p e rlatter SOME INFELICITOUS RECOLLECTIONS. 93 ory-buggy-worm\ bread. Flour was two dollars perpound, and a \ illainous article at that, the most of ithaving made the \oyage round Cape Horn and heatedin the ships hold. Potatoes were eight dollars perpound, the chief use to which they were put being asa cure for scur\ \, which complaint was then quite The locality\ er\- he a rtdiggings inbut we didthis at theoften pickeds i / e d nug-d o o r- yard\y rain; butcur to any ofpect for dig-er there orelse in the. c o m m o n. was in the of the best California, not know time. We u p g o o d - gets in the after a hea- it did notoc- us to pros- gings, eith- anywhere flat of sev- t^ 4^(^<M^^eyy^-^ eral acres in which the cabin was situated. My recollections of the place are cherished none the more because of the presence of a victim of delirium tremens, who imagined that he was in hell suffering the torments of the damned, while just beyond him, in plain \ iew, was hea\ en, with the angels in the full ecstacx of bliss. Another incident of the place 1 Henry W. Bigler, St. George, Utah; Azariah Smith, Manti, Utah; andJames S. Brown and William Johnson, Salt Lake City, Utah, all Mexican Warveterans, and ex-members of the famous Mormon Battalion, which was mus-tered out in California, in 184S, are the only survivors of the gold discoveryparty now known to me. Peter L. Wimmer, of San Diego, Cal ; and WilfordHudson, of Grantsville, Utah, also of that party, were living, according to TheCentury, in 18
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