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Men from the States lawyers, doctors, speculators, adventurers, pilgrims, and dead-beats; men from the western side of the Missouri; grisly miners from Colorado; hunters and trappers from Idaho and Wyoming; card sharps from Denver and Fr'isco; pickpockets from St. Joe and bummers from Omaha all are here, each one a part of a strange and on the whole a very undesirable community.
Long before we reached San Fr'isco I was again eager for adventure. How magnificent is the bay! One cannot see across it. How impatient we were to land! Everything new. Bearded dirty heterogeneous crowds busy in all directions, some running up wooden and zinc houses, some paving the streets with planks, some housing over ships beached for temporary dwellings.
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