. 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." . YII. Soon on a stretcher he was laid, Avith his head all caved in. For the way that they had walloped him, was a shame andawful sin ; All mashed and shattered was his head, as if butted by a ram ; The doctor felt his corpus, the parson sung a psalm, and whenthey asked him from whence he came, he faintly whis-pe
. 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." . YII. Soon on a stretcher he was laid, Avith his head all caved in. For the way that they had walloped him, was a shame andawful sin ; All mashed and shattered was his head, as if butted by a ram ; The doctor felt his corpus, the parson sung a psalm, and whenthey asked him from whence he came, he faintly whis-pered, Yuba Dam / Did this dying Yuba miner, of the days of 49. HON. DEMAS STEONGS SPEECH. 479. coroner soon an inquest held, and then at his command,They shoved old Yuba in a box, and dumped him in the sand,At midnight hour they buried him, without show, or pomp, or flam,And when at the last day Gabriels trump shall sound, among the early risers, you bet, will be old Yuba Dam !That defunct and ancient miner, of the days of 49. The President called upon Hon. Demas Strong, ex-Supervisor of Brooklyn, President of the first City Coun-cil of Sacramento City, and acting Mayor of that city afterthe death of Mayor Bigclow, in the fall of 1850, for a gentleman acquiescing, stated that, as it was pastmidnight, and rather late for speech-making, he wouldmake his remarks brief. He described his voyage fromPanama to San Francisco in the first ship that left tlielatter harbor after the discovery of gold. The crews of allprevious vessels invariably ran off to the speeches of the evening liad recalled memories to hismind which would go down with him to th
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