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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with strange baggage. I could, in fact,find anything but my own goods and chattels. Thecabin-maid soon made her appearance, and enteredinto an explanation of matters. Women generallycarry their point, and it so happened in this case,although the justice of the matter seemed to merather questionable. It ai^peared, upon investiga-tion, that tw^o individuals of the male persuasion,occupying state-room E had surrendered theirquarters to a gentleman and his wife, and duringthe absence of myself and room-mate, had takenpossession of state-room F. I endeavored to con-vince them of the injustice of their j^roceedings, butit was of no use, and as a lady was involved in thecase, I accepted a berth in state-room B and droj)pedthe subject. My room-mates were a Mr. Clarkson,of San Jose, and Mr. Tittle, ex-Postmaster of Sac-ramento City; both bound to the States for theirbetter-halves and little ones. There were forty-two cabin and one hundred andseventy-six steerage j^assengers on board the Colum-
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BICKERINGS END DELIGHTFULLY. 3G1 bus, aiul when all were congregated on deck, therewas not much spare room. At the commencementof the voyage, petty jealousies and bickeringsexisted between the cabin and steerage passengersin relation to their rights to the hurricane orpromenade deck. On the fourth day at sea a linewas stretched across the deck abaft the mizzen-mast by the cabin jDassengers, and the steerage pas-sengers were requested to keep forward of the line.This movement on the part of the cabin passengerswas taken in high dudgeon by their brethren of tliesteerage, and a war of words ensued, interlardedwith einthets more forcible than polite. On theensuing evening a meeting was convened in thecabin, and after a free discussion of grievances onboth sides, it wound up to the entire satisfaction ofall concerned, with champagne and cigars for thecrowd. A^^e were favored with fine weather and a smoothsea until we reached the Gulf of California, where.we encountered head-winds and cross

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