Identifier: notesofvoyagetoc01upha (find matches)
Title: 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."
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Upham, Samuel C. (Samuel Curtis), 1819-1885
Subjects: Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California Voyages to the Pacific coast Ethnic groups Law Business
Publisher: Philadelphia, The author
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d us with great civility, and at parting pre-sented us with a quarter of dried venison, whichwas very acceptable. I presented the chief—avIio,by-the-by, was one of the ugliest-looking red-skinsI ever beheld—with a plug of tobacco. The Diggereats very little animal food. Like his brother, thegorilla, he is a vegetarian and subsists 2)rincipallyon wild berries and acorns, occasionally luxuriatingon snails and grasshoppers. He cuts his hair witha sharp stone, and boils water in a basket. Inthe winter he burrows in the earth like a prairiedog, and emerges from his den in the spring as fatas a grizzly. His costume is decidedly primitiveand airy, consisting of a breech-clout and a pair ofmoccasins. Since civilization has overtaken him,he occasionally dons a 2)aper collar and a pair ofMexican spurs. On our return to camp we placed the muleteerson guard, and wrapping ourselves in our blankets,were soon fast in the embrace of Morpheus. Justbefore daylight I was startled by the sharp report
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INDULGE IN A SONG. 243 of a rifle and a tremendous clattering of tin pans,pots and kettles. I grasped my rifle, which waslying alongside of me, and sprang behind the near-est tree, where I found my two companions dodgingabout like lizards around a cabbage-tree, expectingevery moment to be skewered by the arrow of anIndian. I am not easily frightened, but I will con-fess that I felt a little nervous. Our fears weresoon relieved by one of the muleteers, who informedus that he had discharged his gun at a coyote. Thevarmint,^^ not having the fear of powder and leadbefore his eyes, had commenced depredations onone of our provision sacks. He escaped unscathed,but, in his sudden departure, had upset our coffee-pot and other tinware, which impressed us with thebelief that the Diggers had made an attack on ourcamp. After rolling up our blankets, we set about pre-paring our morning repast, which being completedat sunrise, we assisted the muleteers to pack theanimals and again resumed our journe

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