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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all into their hands; so, whenever a ranch requireslaborers, you hear of some Indian outrage, followed bythe taking of prisoners by the Californians. The prisoners I saw at Sonoma were mostly females andyoung chiUlren. They were huddled together like beasts,nearly naked, and seemed to create no sympathy. Somewere good-looking. They maintained a sullen expression,and bore up under their misfortunes with a stoicism pecu-liar to the aboriginal inhabitants of this continent. TheIndians belonging to Sonoma station, that had accompa-nied the expedition, seemed to have revived within them,by the shedding of blood, all the bad traits of their savagenature. They celebrated, through the whole night of myarrival, their victory with dances and songs. They paintedtheir bodies coarsely, and showed less variety and spirit inall they did than you will meet with among the real savages,who have not, like most of the California Indians, been, byyears of degradation, deprived of their original character.
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A VISIT TO NEW HELVETIA. 555 After a visit of some clays at Sonoma, visiting most oftlic places in the vicinity situated on the beautiful bay, Ileft for Ycrba Bucna, a small and growing town on thesouth-west side of San Francisco Bay, and near the tt)wn ofthat name. The harbor oflcrs orcat facilities for the un-loading of vessels of all descriptions; but, like many otherplaces bordering on the sea, in California, it sufRtrs fromwant of good water, which cannot be o))tained—the wellsbeing rather brackish. Vessels, therefore, are obliged tocross the bay for a supply of wholesome water. As thiscountry becomes more thickly settled, and facilities arccreated for traveling, there will be still another port openedfurther south than Yerl)a Bucna, which will no doubt be-come of great importance as a place of business. I foundthree whalers in the bay at Yerba Bucna, and occupiedmy time most pleasantly in conversation with their officers—two of them being American vessels. * * * * :;c H<

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