. Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with scenes in El Dorado, in the years of 1849-'50. With an appendix containing reminiscences ... together with the articles of association and roll of members of "The associated pioneers of the territorial days of California." . e withering blast ofdisease came oer him, and the liigli anticipations of his friendswere blighted. His death was as his life, serene and sank as sinks the star, silent, uncomplaining, hearts of his many friends will be touched with grief; thespirit of his beloved wife will be bowed und
. Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with scenes in El Dorado, in the years of 1849-'50. With an appendix containing reminiscences ... together with the articles of association and roll of members of "The associated pioneers of the territorial days of California." . e withering blast ofdisease came oer him, and the liigli anticipations of his friendswere blighted. His death was as his life, serene and sank as sinks the star, silent, uncomplaining, hearts of his many friends will be touched with grief; thespirit of his beloved wife will be bowed under the heavy be-reavement ; the tears of his sweet little children will flow asthey remember his parting kiss. But the star, though set, isshining still in the heavens. He was a devoted Christian, andunaffectedly pious. He breathed his last at about nine oclocklast evcningj at peace with God and the world. Caf)tain Jolin A. Sutter, the first white man whosettled at New Helvetia, now Sacramento City,came overland from Jackson County, Missouri, in183S-9. At that time the country was the abodeof savages and wild beasts. Here, in this distantand secluded dej^endeucy of imbecile Mexico, hedetermined to rear the standard of American free-dom. Such was the intention and feeling of this. HIS ENTERPllISE AND DARING. oUl veteran soldier, wlieu lie conceived the ide;i ofuniting tliis land of gold, the liidc between Asi:i iindAmerica, completing a commercial chain, now en-compassing the whole world. The privations, hard-ships, mental anxiety and peril, necessarily encount-ered by Captain Sutter, during this long period,cannot be adequately depicted. Kepeatedly thesavage foe, under various pretexts, sought his life;and to good judgment, prom2)tness and energy, doeshe owe his continued existence. At one time, whileconversing with a friend in the fort, at a late hourof the night, a sudden noise burst upon their savages had entered the walls of the Captain and his friends wer
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