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Thence we proceeded up Amador Valley to Alameda Creek, and so on to the old mission of San Jose; thence to the pueblo of San Jose, where Folsom and those belonging in Yerba Buena went in that direction, and we continued on to Monterey, our party all the way giving official sanction to the news from the gold-mines, and adding new force to the "fever."
If I were beat I do think that then I should go back and bury myself in the gold-mines. You asked me what I meant to do about my future life. That is my purpose. If she were my wife I should consult her. We might travel part of the time, and I might have a farm. I should always look upon Folking as home.
The squadron encounters fearful storms Returns to Veragua The Adelantado visits the cacique Quibian Vessels nearly lost by a bore in the river The Adelantado sets off for the gold-mines During a second excursion collects much gold Columbus resolves to form a colony The vessels prevented from crossing the bar Eighty men engaged in building a fort Diego Mendez goes on a scouting expedition, and discovers the treacherous designs of Quibian Visits the village of the cacique The Adelantado undertakes to capture Quibian He succeeds The cacique escapes on his way down the river Is supposed to be lost Columbus prepares to sail Indians attack the settlement Driven off Tristan goes up the river for water He and his party destroyed by the Indians Settlement again attacked The Spaniards entrench themselves No communication possible with the ships Fearful tragedy on board Gallant conduct of Ledesma The settlement abandoned The ships, pierced by the teredo, unseaworthy One abandoned at Puerto Bello Stands across to Cuba A tempest Narrow escape In vain endeavouring to get westward, steers for Jamaica The caravels run on shore and prepared for defence Diego Mendez obtains provisions Crosses in a canoe to Hispaniola Mutiny of Porras and others They put to sea in canoes Driven back by a storm Misconduct on shore Instigate the Indians to withhold provisions Columbus predicts an eclipse of the moon A second mutiny Arrival of Escobar Refuses to take Columbus away Adventures of Mendez Porras persists in his rebellion Porras captured by the Adelantado Vessels arrive Columbus reaches San Domingo Reaction in his favour Returns with his brother to Spain His last illness and death.
And Maria Fiori hated it, that bread should be a treat to her children, when it was the meanest food of all the rest of the world. She was in opposition to this order. She did not want her sons to be peasants, fixed and static as posts driven in the earth. She wanted them to be in the great flux of life in the midst of all possibilities. So she at length sent Paolo to America to the gold-mines.
Captains and crews deserted for the gold-mines, and now half the city in front of Montgomery Street is built over the hulks thus abandoned. But Dr. Semple, at that time, was all there was of Benicia; he was captain and crew of his ferry boat, and managed to pass our party to the south side of Carquinez Straits in about two days.
It seems that in February, 18 he started on an expedition to Bekwando in the interior with an Englishman by the name of Trent, with a view to buying land from a native King, or obtaining the concession to work the valuable gold-mines of that country.
We came to a pretty little town of the same name, a considerable way up that river, where we were assured by some prisoners that the gold-mines were not above two leagues from thence; but as we had present occasion for provisions, we carried about ninety bushels of maize on board from this place, without searching for the mines.
The result of the exploring mission of M. Garnier was not a discovery of gold-mines, as so many had hoped. He is of the opinion that gold deposits are scarce in the island.
Young and handsome and of the gentry, unfavored by the owner of the wealth which some day would be his own possession, stopping "gentry-way" at a cottage door to speak good-naturedly to a pale young mother, handing over the magnificence of a whole sovereign to be saved for a new-born child, going away to vaguely understood disgrace, leaving his own country to hide himself in distant lands, meeting death amid snow and ice and surrounded by gold-mines, leaving his empty place to be filled by a boot-black newsboy true there was enough to lie and think over and to try to follow with the help of maps and excited questions.
You see, señor, these things are talked over whenever a few of us get together, and though there are not many other things that we do know, you will scarcely meet a Peruvian who could not talk with you for hours about the lost treasure and the lost gold-mines of the Incas.
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