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The Blue and the Gray. While out on patrol Blutch and Chesterfield encounter an unusual soldier: After an even bloodier battle than usual the Union army is out of men. But so are the Rebels and General Alexander decides to retreat and come back with reinforcements quickly before the enemy can do the same.

That's where Chesterfield's flame Amelia lives-the daughter of Colonel Appleton. Our two heroes are captured by the Confederates and taken to Robertsonville prison camp from which Blutch and the Sergeant try to escape five times. Infimes frottis aux coins. Der Bundeskanzler in der internationalen Karikatur. Galerie Alain Paviot Spiral Binding in Slipcase. Montreal Books rating system: Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Baden Germany --History --Revolution The Inhumanity of War: A sound copy with only light wear.

Overall a solid copy at a great price! All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words a nonprofit job training program for youth empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. After spending the day, Ord and I returned to Monterey, about thirty-five miles, by a shorter route. Thus passed the month of February, and, though there were nomails or regular expresses, we heard occasionally from YerbaBuena and Sutter's Fort to the north, and from the army andnavy about Los Angeles at the south.

Kearney had with hi only therents of the two companies of dragoons, which had comess from New Mexico with him, and had been handled veryghly by Don Andreas Fico, at San Pascual, in which en-ent Captains Moore and Johnson, and Lieutenant Hamsnd, were killed, and Kearney hhself wounded.

There re-med with him Colonel Swrds, quartermaster; Captain H. We alsokw that eneral r. Mason had been ordered to California;itha regient of New York Volunteers; that ComnSodorebrick had orders also from the Navy Deparment to controlers afloat; that General Kearney, by virtue of his rak, hadight to control all the land-forces in the service of the Unitedes; and that Fremo nt claimed the same right by virtue of ar had received fro Colonel Benton, then a Senator, ian of great influence with Polk's Administration. So thong the younger offers the query was very natural, "Who thel is Governor of California" One day I was on board theIependene frigate, dining with the ward-roo officers, whenr-vessel was reported in the oiini, which in dlue time wasis, to carry the usual messages, and to invite Gener Kearneycome onboard the Indpendence as the guest of Conuodorebrick.

In due time the Cyananchored close by, and our boat was seen returning with a strarger in the stern-sheets, clothed in army-blue. As the boat earnnearer, we saw that it was General Kearney with an old dragoocoat on, and an armny-cap, to which the general had added thbroad visor, cut from a full-dress hat, to shade his fao and eyeagainst the glaring sun of the Gila region. He is Governor of California. He was delighted to fina full strong company of artillery, subject to his orders, welsupplied with clothing and money in all respects, and, much tthe disgust of our Captain Tompkins, he took half of his conpany clothing and part of the money held by me for the relieof his worn-out and almost naked dragoons left behind at LaAngeles.

Ina few days he moved on shore, took up his quarterat Larkin's house, and established his headquarters, with CaptaiTurner as his adjutant-general. One day Turner and Warner werat my tent, and, seeing a store-box full of socks, drawers, and calicshirts, of which I had laid in a three years' supply, and of whichthey had none, made known to me their wants, and I told themto help themselves, which Turner and Warner did.

The latterhowever, insisted on paying me the cost, and from that date tothis Turner and I have been close friends. Warner, poor fellowwas afterward killed by Indians. Things gradually came intoshape, a semi-monthly courier line was established from Yerbena to San Diego, and we were thus enabled to keep paceiiv PAGE 17 ' In March Stevenson'siment arrived.

Colonel Mason also arrived by sea fromlao in the store-ship Eri, and P. J Smith andorge Stonman were with him, and were assigned to the coy of dragoon s at Los Angeles. All these troops an they regarded General Kearney as the rightful comrander,ugh Fremont still remained at os Angeles, styling himself asvernor, issuing orders and holding his battalion of Californiason and Major Turner were sent down by sea with a pay-ster, with muster-rolls and orders t muster this battalion intoservice of the United States, to pay and then to muster thembut on their reaching Los Angeles Frenont would not con-believed to have passed between Mason and Fremont, butduel never came about.

Turner rode up by land in four oredays, and Fr ont, becoming alarmed, followed him, as weposed, to overtake him, but he did not succeed. On Fre-nt's arrival at Monterey, he camped in a tent about a mile outtown and called on General Kearney, and it was reported thatlatter threatened him very severely and ordered him back tos Angeles immediately, to disband his volunteers, and to ceasee exercise of authority of any kind in the country.

Feeling atural curiosity to see Fremont, who was then quite famous byson of his recent explorations and the still more recent conflictsh Kearney and Mason, I rode out to his camp, and found hima conical tent with one Captain Owens, who was a mountain-, trapper, etc. I spentur or so with Fremont in his tent, took some tea with him,1left, without being milh impressed with him. In due timeC nel Swords returned from the Sandwich Islands and re-ved me as quartermaster. Marcy, son of e Secretary of War, had also come out in one of Stevenson'sps as an assistant commissary of subsistence, and was stationedtMonterey and relived me as commissary, so that I revertedo t conn n ofa company-ofniner.

Three companies were stationed at the Presunder Major James A. OneI was down at the headquarters at Larkin'shouse, when Geniarney remarked to me that he was going down to Los Angin the ship Lexington, and wanted me to go along as hisOf course this was most agreeable to me. Two of Stevenscompanies, wilth the headquarters and the colonel, were toalso. They embarked, and early in May we sailed forPedro. Ile was busy in calling in" lassooing "-fthe land-service the various naval officers who under Stoohad been doing all sorts of militry nd civil service on sKnowing that I was to go down the coast with Generalney, he sent for me and handed me two unsealed parcelsdresse to Lieutenant Wilson, United States Navy, andGillespie, United States Marines, at Los Angeles.

Thesewritten orders pretty much i tes word "Onreceiptofolder you will repair at once on board the United StatesLexington at San edro, and on reaching Monteryyoureport to the undersigned. We landed, andearney held to my arm in ascending the steep path upbluff, he remarked to imself, rather than to me, that itstrange that remont did not want to eturn north by theington on acount of sea-sicknreferred to go by PAGE 19 five hundred miles.

The younger officers had been discuss-Swhat the general would do with Fremont, who was supposede in a state of mutiny. Some thought he would be tried and, some that he would be carried back in irons; and all agreedif any one else than Fremont had put on suc airs, and hadSas e had done, Kearney would have shown him no mercy,e was regarded as the strictest sort of a disciplinarian. WeorChrifin, quartered in an adobe-house close by. Fremont heldourt in the only twostory frame-house in the place.

Afterotne spentat Pryor's house, General Kearney ordered me toon Fromont to notify him of his arrival, and that he desiredee him. I walked round to the house which had been pointedto me as his, inquired of a man at the door if the colonelin, was answered Yes," and was conducted to a large roomho second oor, where very soon Fremont came in, and Ivered my message. As I was on the point of leaving, he ined where I was going to, and I answered that I was goingSto Pryor's house, where the general was, when he remarkedif I would wait a moment he would go along.

Of courseaited, and he soon joined me, dressed much as a Californian,h the peculiar high, broad-brinmed hat, with a fancy cord,dwe walked together back to Pryor's, where I left him withcral Kearney. We spent several days very pleasantly atAngeles, then, as now, the chief puelo of the south, fameits grapesfruits, and wines. There was a hill close to then, from which we had a perfect view of the place. The sur-r ding country is level, utterly devoid of trees, except theows and cotton-woods that line the Los Angeles Creek andeaequias, or ditches, which lead from it.

The space of groundivated in vineyards seemed about five miles by one, embrac-iglthe town. The Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rversarefedbymelting snows from a range of mountains to the east, and thequantity of cultivated land depends upon the amount of water. This did not seem to be verylarge; but the San Gabri River,close by, was represented to contain a larger volume of water,aording the means of greatly enlarging the space for cultivationThe climate was so moderate thatet, were generally to be found in every yard or i losure.

At the time of our visit, General Kearney was making hispreparations to return overland to the United States, and hearranged to secure a volunteer escort out of the battalion ofMorons that was then stationed at San Luis Ry, under ColonelCooke and a Major unt. This battlion was only enlisted forone year, and the time for their dischrge was approaching, anditwas generally understood that the majoriy of the men wantedto be discharged so as to join the Mormons who ad halted atSalt Lake, but a lieutennt and about forty men volunteered toreturn to Missouri as the escort of General Kearney.

Thesewere mounted on mules and horses, and I was appointed to conduct them to Monterey by land. Leaving the party at LosAngeles to follow bysea in the Lexington, started with theMormon detachment and traveled byland. Weveraged aboutthirty miles a day, stopped one day at Santa Barbara, where Isaw Colonel Burton, and so on by the usually traveled road toMonterey, reahing it in aboutfifteen days, arriving some daysin advance of the Lexington. This gave me te best kind of anopportunity for seeing the country, which waulated indeed, except by a few familes at the vao Miion.

We had no wheeled vehicles, but packed our food and clothingon mules driven ahead, and we slpt on the round in the openair, the rainy season having passed. Fre ont followed me byland in a few days, and, by the end of May, General Kearneywas all ready at Monterey to take his departure, leaving tosucceed him in command Colonel R. Colonel Mason selected me as his adjutant-general; and on the very last day of May General Kearney, withhis Mormon escort, with Colonel Cooke, Colonel Swords quartermaster , Captain Turner, and a naval officer, CaptainRadfordtookhisdeparturefor the East overland, leaving usin full possession of California and its fate.

Frenont also leftCalifora with General Kearney, and with him departed allcause of confusion and disorder in the country. From that ti4oforth no one could dispute the authority of Colonel Mason as incommand of all the United States forces on shore, while thesenior naval ofer had a like control aoat. Ap Catesby Jones in the line-of-battle-ship Ohio..

At thattiro Monterey was our headquarters, and the naval commanderfor a time remained there, but subsequently San Francisco Baybecame the chief naval rendezvous. Mason, First Dragoons, was an officer of greatexperience, of stern character, deemed by some harsh and severe,but in all my intercourse with him he was kind and agreeable. He had a large fund of good sense, and, during our long periodof service together, I enjoyed his unlimited confidence.

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California had settled downto a condition of absolute repose, and we naturally repined at ourfate in being so remote from the war in Mexico, where our corn-rad were reaping large honors. Murray had a small log-house not far off. The companyof artillery was still on the hill, under the command of Lieu-tenant Ord, engaged in building a fort whereon to mount theguns we had brought out in the Lexington, and also in con- PAGE 24 strutting quarters out of hewn pine-logs for the men.

Lieant Minor, a very clever young oflker, had taken violeht1and' died abou t the tie I got Mwas the quartermaster and commissary. Naglee's compStevenson's regiment had been mounted and was senaainst the Indians in the San Joaquin Valley, and Shan company occupied the barracks. Shortly after General Keh, gone East, we found an order of his on record, removiMr.

A letter came to Colonel andalealde, the then incumbent Nash utterly denied Kearight to remove him, because he had been elected by thpe under the proclamation of Commodore Sloat, and refusurrender his oce or to account for his acts as alalde. The people of Sonoma towvalley, some forty or fifty immigrants from the Unitedand very few native Californians, had elected Mr. Nash, astated, he refused to recognize the right of a mre mcommander to eject him and to appoint another to hisNeither General Kearney nor Mason had much respect ftkind of "buncombe," but assumed the true doctrine thafornia was yet a Mexican province, held by right of conthat the military commander was held responsible to thetry, and that th province should be held in stat quotreaty of peace.

ThisCaptain rackett, whose company was stationed at Sonomaorders to notify Nash that Boggs was the rightful alealdehe must quietly surrender his office, with the books and rthereof and that e mustaount for any mones re PAGE 25 ' He then gave me an order to go to1oma to carry out the instructions already given to Brackett. I took one soldier with me, rivate Barnes, with fourses, two of which we rode, and the other two we droveead.

The first day we reached Gilroy's and camped by aam near three or four adobe-huts known as Gilroy's ranch. The whole of s distance, now so beautifully improved and settled, wasn scarcely occupied, except by poor ranches producingbe-houses festooned with red peppers and garlic; and thesion of Santa Clara was a dilapidated concern, with itsrbh and orchard. The long line of poplar-trees lining thea from San Jose to Santa Clara bespoke a former perioden the priests had ruled the land. Just about dark I wasig on the ground near the well, and my soldier Barnes hadered our horses and picketed them to grass, when we heardorse crushing his way through the high mustard-bushesich filled the plain, and soon a man came to us to inquire ifhad seen a saddle-horse pass up the road.

He explained that he was a surveyor, and had been in thelower country engaged in surveying land; that the horse hadescaped him with his saddle-bags containing all his notes andpapers, and some six hundred dollars in money, all tbo moneye had earned. The nextday toward night we approached the Mission of San Francisco,and the village of Yerba Buena, tired and weary-the wind asusual blowing a perfect hurricane, and a more desolate regionit was impossible to conceive of. Leaving Barnes to work hisway into the town as best he could with the tired animals, Itook the freshest horse and rode forward.

I fell in with Lieu-tenant Fabius Stanley, United States Navy, and we rode intoYerba Buena together about an hour before sundown, there be-ing nothing but a path from the Mission into the town, deepand heavy with drift-sand. My horse could hardly drag onefoot after the other when we reached the old Hudson ayCompany's house, which was then the store of Howard andMelus.

There I learned where Captain Folso, the quarter-master, was to be found. He was staying with a family of thename of Grimes, who had a small house bak of oward's store,which must have been near where Sacramento Street nowcrosses Kearney. Folsom was a classmate of mine, had comeout with Stevenson's regiment as quartermaster, and was at thetime the chief-quartermaster of the department. His oice wasin the old custom-house standing at the northwest corner of thePlaza.

He had hired two warehouses, the only ones there atthe time, of one Liedsdor, the principal man of Yerba Buena,who also owned the only ubli-house or tavern ledthe PAGE 27 s I stopped with Folsom at Mrs. Grimes's, and he sent mys, as also the other three when Barnes hal got in afterk, to a corral where he had a little barley, but no hay.

Att time nobody fed a horse, but he was usually turned out tok such scanty grass as ie could find on the side-hills. Thefwgovernment horses used in town were usually sent out totePresidio, where the grass was somewhat better. A naval othier, icutenant Washington AlBatlett, its first alcaldo, had caused it to be surveyed and laic'into blocks and lots, which were being sold at sixteen dollasa lot of fifty varas square; the understanding being thatsingle person could purchase of the alcalde more than oneot of fifty varas, and one out-lot of a hundred vanas.

Fol-m, however, bad got his clerks, orderlies, etc. Lieu-nt Halleck had bought one of each kind, and so had War-Many naval officers had also invested, and Caltain Folsomsed me to buy some, but I felt actually insulted that held think me such a fool as to pay money for property insha horrid place as Yorba Buena, especially ridiculing hisrter of the city, then called Happy Valley. At that dayntgomnery Street was, as now, the business street, extendingm Jackson to Sacramento, the water of the bay leavingely room fora few houses on its east side, and the publicehouses were on a sandy beach about where the Bank offornia now stands, viz.

Around thePa were a few houses, among them the City Hotel and thestor-House, single-story adobes with tiled roofs, and theywe by far the nost substantial and best houses in the place,population was estimated at about four hundred, of whomakas natives of the Saudwich Islnd s formed the bulk. At the foot of Clay Street was a small whrf which small boatscould reach at high tide; but the principal landingplace waswhere some stones had fallen into the water, about whereBroadway now intersects Battery Street.

On the stop bluffabove had been excavated, by the navy, during the year before,a bench, wherein were mounted a couple of navy-guns, styledth batery, whid, I suppose, gave name to the street. I ex-lained to Folsom the object of my visit, and learned from himthat he had no boat in which to senid me to Sonoma, and thatthe only chance to get there was to borrow a boat from ther.

The lne-of-battle-ship Columbus was then lying atnchor off the town, and he aid if I would get up early thenext morning I could go off to her in one of the marketboats. He ad a perfect contempt for all humwng, and at once entered into the business with ex-treme alacrity. I was somewhat amused at the importane heattached to the step. He had a chaplain, and a private scre-tary, in a small room latticed off from his cabin, and he firstcalled on them to go out, and, when we were alone, he en-larged on the folly of Sloat's proclamation, giving the peoplethe right to elect their own officers, and commended Kear-ney and Mason for nipping that idea in the bud, and keep-ing the power in their own ands.

He thesent or the firstlieutenant Drayton , and inquired if there were among theofiers on board any who had ever been in the Upper Bay, andlearning that there was a midshipman Whittaker he was sentfor. It so happened that this midshipman had been on a frolicon shore a few nights before, and was accordingly much fright-ened when summoned into the commodore's.

Accordingly, the long-boat was ordered with this midship: I knew most of them, and we settled down onLouisMcLane. With this injunction I was dismissed to the wai. The fact that McLano and Ihad ben closeted with the commodore for an hour, that ordersfor the t a stores had been made that the chaplain andclerk had been sent out of the cabin, etc.

The generalimpression was, tht we had some knowledge about the fate ofCaptain Montgomerys two sons and the crew that had been lostthe year In p Captain Montgomery commanded atYorba Buena, on board the St. Mary sloop-of-war, and he hada detachment of men stationed up at Sonoma. Occasionally aboat was sent up with provisions or intelligence to them.

Mont-gomery had two sons on board his ship, one a midshipman, theother his secretary. Having occasion to send some money upto Sonoma, be sent his two sons with a good boat and crew. The boat started with a strong breeze and a very large sail, waswatched from the deck until she was out of sight, and has neverbeen heard of since.

There was, of course, much speculationas to their fate, some contending that the boat must have beencapsized in San Pablo Bay, and that all were lost; others con-tending thati; the crew had murdered the officers for the money,and then escaped; but, so far as I know, not a man of that crewhas ver been seen or heard of since.

When at last the boatwas ready for us, we started, leaving all hands, save the commo-dore, impressed with the belief that we were going on some er-rand connected with the loss of the missing boat and crew ofthe St Mary. San Pablo, reached the mouth of SonomaCreek about dark, andduring the ight worked up the creek some twelve miles bymeans of the tide, to a landing called the Embaradero.

Tomaintain the secrecy which the commodore had enjoined on uITLane and I agreed to okep up the delusion by pretending tobe on a marketing expedition to pick up chickens, pigs, etc. It was a simle open square, around whichSsome adobhouses, that of General allejo occupying oneside. On another was an unfinished two-story adobe building,occupied as a barrack by Brackett's company. We soon foundCaptain Brackett, and I told him that I intended to take Nash aprisoner and convey him back to Monterey to answer for his mutinous 1ehavior.

I got an old sergeant of his company, whomI had known in the Third Artillery, quietly to ascertain thewhereabouts of Nash, who was a bachelor, stopping with thefamily of a lawyer named Green.

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The sergeant soon returned,saying that Nash had gone over to Napa, but would be backthat evening; so McLane and I went up to'a farm of some pre-tensions, occupied by one Andreas opner, with a pretty Sitkawife, who lived a couple of miles above Sonoma, and we boughtof him some chickens, pigs, etc. We then visited GovernorBoggs's family had that of General Vallejo, who was then, asnow, one of the most prominent and influential natives of Cali-fornia.

About dark I learned that Nash had come back, andthen, giving Brackett orders to have a cart ready at the corner of the plaza, M1cLane and I went to the house of Green. Post-ing an armed sailor on each side of the house, we knocked at thedoor and walked in.

We found Green, Nash, and two women,at supper. I inquired if Nash were in, and was first answered" No," but one of the women soon pointed to him, and he rose. We were armed with pistols, and the family was evidentlyalarmed. I walked up to him and took his arm, and told himto come along with me. I simply pointed to my pistol, and told hin to get outf the way, which he did. Nash asked to get some clothing, buttold him he should want for nothing. We passed out, Greenwing us with loud words, which brought the four sailors tot front-door, when I told him to hush up or I would take himrisoner also.

About that time one of the sailors, handling hisistol carelessly, discharged it, and reen disappeared very sud-enly. We took Nash to the cart, put him in, and proceededek to our boat.. The next morning we were gone. Nash being out of the way, Boggs entered on his office, ande right to appoint or remove from civil office was never againestioned in California during the military ri. Nash wasold man, and was very much alarmed for his personal safety.

On our way down the bay the wind was so strongwe appro hed the Columbus, that we had to take refuge be-nd Yorba Buena Island, then called Goat Island, where we nded, and I killed a gray seal. I found him there, and committedash to his charge, with the requeA that he would send himwn to Monterey, which he did in the sloop-of-war Dale, Cap-in Selfridge commanding.

But, on the contrary, the colonel spoke to him kindly,leased him as a prisoner on his promise to go back to Sono-a. The war still continued in Mexico, and the navy authorities resolved to emplotheir time with the capture of Mazatlan and Guaymas. The orders for this occupatiopoltical end, for there were few or no people in Lower Califorreme r i te proclamation ade by urton and Captainley, in taking possession, which was in the usual florid styhliterall is "the most ancient of all the naval offers: Major Hardie still conuandedt San Francisco and above; Conspany F, Third Artillery, andhannon's company of volunteers, were at Monterey; Lippett'scompany at Santa Barbara; Colonel Stevenson, with one conany of his regiment, and the company of the First Dragoons, ut of the Mormon Battalion, garrisoned San Diego-and thusmatters went along throughout into I had occasibnSmake several trips to Yerba Buena and back,an intheI spent much time in hunting deer and bear in the mountainsf the Salinasi As soon as the fall rains set in, the young oatsonld sprout up, and rmyriads of ducks, brant, and geese, madeheir appearance.

In a single day, or rather in the evening ofn day and the morning of the next, I couiild load a pack-muleith geese and ducks. They had grown somewhat wild frohe increased number of hunters, yet, by marking well the placehere a flock lighted, I could, by taking advantage of gulliesr the shape of the ground, creep up within range; and, givingne barrel on the ground, and the other as they rose, I haven one occasion killed eleven geese by one discharge of smallhot. The seasons in California are well marked.

A lbouttober and November the rains begin, and the whole country,plains and mountains, becomes covered with a bright-green grass,ith endless flowers. The intervals between the rains give theinest weather possible. These rains are less frequentin March,nd cease altogether in April and ay, when gradually the grassies and the whole aspect of things eanges, first to yellow, theno brown, and by midsiumner all is burnt up and dry as an ash-When General Kearney first departed we took his office atarkin's; but shortly afterward we had a broad stairway con-tructed to lead from the outside to the upper front porch ofthe barracks.

By cutting a large door through the adobe-wall,-""'' iiii. Hanell, citizen, also had a table in the same room. Hewas the government interpreter, and had charge of the civilarchives. After IIalleck's return from Mazatlan, he was, byColonel Mason, made Secretary of State; and he then hadlarge-of the civil archives, including the land-titles, of which14emont first had possession, but which had reverted to us whenhi left the country.

I remember one day, in the spring of , that two men,American, came into the and inquired for the Governor. I asked their business, and one answered that they had just comedown faoman Captain Sutter on special business, and they wantedto see Governor Mason in person.

I took them in to the colo-nel, and left them together. After some time the colonel cameto his door andcalledto me. Iwentdirected to a series of papers unfolded on his table, in whichlay about half an ounce of placer-gold. Mason said to me,"What is that? I answered that, in , I wasin Upper Georgia, and there saw some native gold, but it wasmuch finer than this, and that it was in phials, or in transparentquills ; but I said that, if thisweregolditcouldbeeasilytested,first, by its malleabilty, and t by acids.

I took a piece inmy teeth, and the metallic lustre was perfect. I then called to the clerk, Baden, to bring an axe and hatchet from the back-yard. When these wer brought, I took the largest piece andbeat it out flat, and beyond doubt it was metal, and a puremetal. Still, we attached little importance to the fact, for goldwas known to exist at San Fernando, atthe south, and yet wasnot considered of much value.

Mason in-structed me to prepare a letter, in answer, for his signature. I wrote off a letter, reciting that California was yet a Mexicanprovince, simply hed by us as a conquest; that no laws of thoUnited States yet applied to it, much less the land laws rpre ption laws, which could only apply after a public surve Therefore it was impossible for the Governor to promise him Sutter a title to the land; yet, as there were no settlementswithin forty miles, he was not likely to be disturbed by trepassrs.

ColonelMason signed the letter, handed it to one ofthe gentlemen who had brought the sample of gold, and theyThat gold was the ft discovered in the Sierra evada,which soon revolutionized the whole cmntry, and actually movedthe whole civilized world. About this time May and June, , far more importance was attached to quicksilver.

Onemine, the New Ahnaden, twelve miles south of San Jose, waswell known, and was in possession of the agent of a Scotch gentleman named Forbes, who at the time was British consul at Tepic,Mexico. Forbes cameup from San las in a small brig,which proved to be a Mexican vessel; the vessel was seized, condemned, and actually sold, but Forbes was wealthy, andbought her in. His title to the quicksilver-mine was, however,never disputed, as he had bought it regularly, before our con-quest of the country, from another British subject, also namedForbes, a resident of Santa Clara Mission, who had purchasedit of the discoverer, a priest; but the boundaries of the landattached to the mine were even then in dispute.

Other menwere in search of quicksilver; and the whole range of moun-tains near the New Almaden mine was stained with the brilliantred of the sulphuret of mercury cinnabar. A company composed of T. Ricord was a lawyer fror about Buf-fal, and by some means had gotI to the Sandwich Islands, wheree became a great favorite of the king,Kamehameha; was hisattorney-general, and got into a diffiulty with the Rev.

Jdd, who was a kind of prime-inister to his majesty. Oneor the other had to go, and Ricord left for San Franciscowheree arrived while oloel Mason and I were there on some busness connected with the customs.

Ricord at once made a deadet at Mason with flattery, and all sorts of spurious argunentsconvince him that our military government was too splin i f s for the nw state of facts, and that he was theman to remodel it. I had heard a good deal to his prejudiceand did all I could to prevent Mason taking him into hconfidence. We then started back for Monterey. Ricord walong, and night and day e washarpingonhisscheme;buthedisgusted Colonel Mason with his flattery, and, on reaching Mon-tery, he opened what he called a lawie, butthere wereneither courts nor clients, so necessity forced him to turn hhoughts to something else, and quicksilver became his hobby.

In the sp g of 18 an appealameo ur office from SanJ which compelled the Governor to go up in person. Lieuenant Loeser and I, with a couple of soliers, went along. ASan J the Governor hel some kind of acourtinwhiRticord dthe alealde had a warm dispute about a certairmine whi Ricord, as a member of. Wehad found at New Almaden Mr.

Walkinshaw, a fine Scotentleman, the resident aent of Mr. He ad built inthe valley, near a small stream, a few board-houses, and m four or fire furnaces for the distillation of the rury. Thesewere very simple in their structurebeing cmposed of whalerskettles, set in masonry.

These kettles were iled with brokenore about the size of McAdam-stone, mingled with lime. An-other kettle, reversed, formed the lid, and the seam was lutedwith clay. On applying heat, the mercury was volailz d PAGE 37 ried into a chiney-stack, where it condensed and flowedack into a reservoir, and then was led in pipos into anotherettle outside: After witnessing this process, we visited theine itself, which outropped near the pex o the ill, about aousand feet above the furnaces.

We found wagons haulinghe mineral down the hill and returning empty, and in theines quite a number of Sonora miners were blasting and driig for the beautiful re innabar. It was then, and is now, aost valuable mine. The adit of the mine was at the apexShill, which drooped off to the north.

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We rode along theroving of little or no value, had been abandoned. Three mileseyond, on the west face of the hill, we came to the openingSthe Larkin Company. The question involved in the lawsuit before thecalde at San Jose was, first, whether the mine was or was notn the land belonging to the Now Almaden property; and, next,wether the company had complied with all the conditions oft mining laws of Mexico, which were construed to be still infrce in California. These laws required that any one who discovered a valuableine on private land shoild first file with the alalde, or judgef the district, a notice and claim for the benefits of such dis-c ry; then the mine was to be opened and followed for a isance of at least one hundred feet within a specified time, andt aiants must take out samples of th mineral and depositt same with the alcalde, who was then required to inspect per-aly the mine, to see that it fulfilled all the conditions of thew, before he could give a written title.

In this case thelcalde had been to the mine and had possession of samples oft ore; but, as the mouth of the mine was closed up, as alleged,om the act of God, by a land-slide, it was contended by Ricordand lis associates that it was competent to prove by gooditnesses that the mine had been opened into the hill oneundred feet, and that, by no negligence of theirs, it had cavedt w gneali undrstood that Robert J. States Secretary of the Treasury, was then a partner in thismining company; and a vessel, the bark Gray Eagle, was readyat San Francisco to sail for New York with thtitlepapers onwhich to base a joint-stock company for speculative uses.

Ithink the alcalde was satisfied that the law had been compliedwith, that he had given the necessary papers, and, as at thattime there was nothing developed to show fraud, the Governor Mason did not interfere. At tha date there was no publhouse or tavern San Jos where we could stop, so wesorted toward Santa Cruz and encamped about ten miles out,to the st of thetown, where we fell in with another party atexplorers, of whom uckel, of an Francisco,wastheead; andafter supper, as we sat around the camp-fire, the conversationturned on quicksilver in general, and the result of the contest inSan Jos in articular.

M as relating to Ruckethepointsand the arguments of Ricord, that the companyfrom an act of God, viz. GovernorMason, did Judge Ricord say that? This happened long before the ce ratd McGarra-han claim, which has produced so much noise, and which still isbeing prosecuted in the courts and in Congress. On the next day we crossed ove the Santa Cruz Mountains, from which we had sublime views of the scenery, first lookingeast toward the lower ay of San Francisco, with the brightplains of Santa Cra and San Jos, and then to the west uponthe ocean, the town of onterey being visible sixty miles off4 s PAGE 39 imy memory is correct we beheld from that mountain theng of a salute from the battery at Monterey, and counted thember of guns from the white pufis of smoke, but could notr the sound.

That night we slept on piles of wheat in a Sat Soquel, near Santa Cruz, and, our supplies being short, Ivised that we should make an early start next morning, so asreach the ranch of Don Juan Antonio Yallejo, a particularend, who had a large and valuable cattle-ranch on the Pajarover, about twenty miles on our way to Monterey. Accordingly,were off by the first light of day, and by nine o'clock wehadched the ranch.

It was on a high point of the plateau,rlooking the plain of the Pajaro, on which were grazingnbers of horses and cattle. The house was of adobe, with arange of adobe-huts occupied by the semi-civilized tIndians,o at that time did all the labor of a ranch, the herding andrking of cattle, breaking of horses, and cultivating the lit-patches of wheat and vegetables which constituted all therming of that day.

Every thing about the house lookedserted, and, soing a small Indian boy leaning up against at, lapproached him and asked him in Spanish, "Where is theaster?

The utter indifference of this boy, and theto of his answer "Nar," attracted the attention of Colonelson, who had been listening to our conversation, and whowenoughof Spanish to catch the meaning, and he exclaimedh some feeling, "So we get nada for our breakfast. This was no uncommon thing in those days,when many a ranchero with his eleven leagues of land, hishundreds of horses and housands of cattle, would receive uswith all the grandiloquence of a Spanish lord, and confess thathe had nothing in his house to eat except the carcass of a beefhung up, from which the stranger might out and cook, withoutney or price, what he needed.

That night we slpt onSalinas Plain, and the next morning reached Monterey. All themissions and houses at that period were alive with flie natives looked on as pleasant titillators, but they so torturedsaddle-blanket, with the saddle for a pillow and the rape, orblanket, for a cover. We never feared rain except in winter.

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Nobody told us, even when we asked. The Steerpike Blues Band produced two albums: Steerpike and Steerpike Blues Band Track 2, Hall of Bright Carvings John Donaldson drew my attention to this site about it. The complete album can now be heard on YouTube. Apparently never performed live. MP was paid 10 guineas for this talk source: Text printed in MPR 8: Reprinted in PS See Part D prose. First printed in Listener , 27 November , Vol. Full text, with notes and illustrations, printed in MPR 9: Text, with notes, printed in MPR MP was paid 15 guineas for this talk source: Complete text printed in MPR 6: The programme bears a drawing by MP on the front, as does a leaflet used to advertise the play.

Apparently contains pictures of the costumes — not seen. London Mercury, August , vol. Sketch , 18 May 11 photographs of characters in the Playhouse production. Review London Mercury, February , vol. Only the latter can be seen in books — see Part C. The music is by Dr Arne. Verses sung by Peter Pears. Boy in Darkness, posthumous use , drawing of a boy on the poster and programme for the Alexander adaptation.

The drawing is reproduced in Drawings , pl. Titus Alone, posthumous , wash drawing of figures on the poster for the Merton Floats performance mentioned above. An Exhibition of the Artist, Adolf Hitler. In fact it is doubtful whether this booklet was ever actually produced. Several previously unseen pictures from this series were reproduced in PS 2:

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