touwalma

Updated: May 11, 2025

I was foolish enough to be persuaded by him and handed him the ring, for which act I have never forgiven myself. That was the last I ever saw of the ring or any of the money invested in Touwalma city, for it turned out a failure. It was never the head of navigation on the river, or any thing else that was ever heard of.

Daniel Knower - The Adventures of a Forty-niner : An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days

My friend R. was progressing with his brewery. He had received a favorable letter from Lieutenant S. about our Touwalma city, and informing me that S. had a diamond ring that cost $800 in Rio Janeiro, at a broker's office, as collateral security for $250 borrowed on it at ten per cent per month, and the time was about up. If I would redeem the ring I could keep it and wear it until he paid me.

Daniel Knower - The Adventures of a Forty-niner : An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days