Again–Target Shooting–I Turn City Editor–I Succeed Finely
CHAPTER XLIII.
My Friend Boggs–The School Report–Boggs Pays Me An Old Debt–Virginia
City
CHAPTER XLIV.
Flush Times–Plenty of Stock–Editorial Puffing–Stocks Given Me–Salting
Mines–A Tragedian In a New Role
CHAPTER XLV.
Flush Times Continue–Sanitary Commission Fund–Wild Enthusiasm of the
People–Would not wait to Contribute–The Sanitary Flour Sack–It is
Carried to Gold Hill and Dayton–Final Reception in Virginia–Results of
the Sale–A Grand Total
CHAPTER XLVI.
The Nabobs of Those Days–John Smith as a Traveler–Sudden Wealth–A
Sixty-Thousand-Dollar Horse–A Smart Telegraph Operator–A Nabob in New
York City–Charters an Omnibus–“Walk in, It’s All Free”–“You Can’t Pay
a Cent”–“Hold On, Driver, I Weaken”–Sociability of New Yorkers”
CHAPTER XLVII.
Buck Fanshaw’s Death–The Cause Thereof–Preparations for His Burial–
Scotty Briggs the Committee Man–He Visits the Minister–Scotty Can’t
Play His Hand–The Minister Gets Mixed–Both Begin to See–“All Down
Again But Nine”–Buck Fanshaw as a Citizen–How To “Shook Your Mother”–
The Funeral–Scotty Briggs as a Sunday School Teacher
CHAPTER XLVIII.
The First Twenty-Six Graves in Nevada–The Prominent Men of the County–
The Man Who Had Killed His Dozen–Trial by Jury–Specimen Jurors–A
Private Grave Yard–The Desperadoes–Who They Killed–Waking up the Weary
Passenger–Satisfaction Without Fighting
CHAPTER XLIX.
Fatal Shooting Affray–Robbery and Desperate Affray–A Specimen City
Official–A Marked Man–A Street Fight–Punishment of Crime
CHAPTER L.
Captain Ned Blakely–Bill Nookes Receives Desired Information–Killing of
Blakely’s Mate–A Walking Battery–Blakely Secures Nookes–Hang First and
Be Tried Afterwards–Captain Blakely as a Chaplain–The First Chapter of
Genesis Read at a Hanging–Nookes Hung–Blakely’s Regrets
CHAPTER LI.
The Weekly Occidental–A Ready Editor–A Novel–A Concentration of
Talent–The Heroes and the Heroines–The Dissolute Author Engaged–
Extraordinary Havoc With the Novel–A Highly Romantic Chapter–The Lovers
Separated–Jonah Out-done–A Lost Poem–The Aged Pilot Man–Storm On the
Erie Canal–Dollinger the Pilot Man–Terrific Gale–Danger Increases–A
Crisis Arrived–Saved as if by a Miracle
CHAPTER LII.
Freights to California–Silver Bricks–Under Ground Mines–Timber
Supports–A Visit to the Mines–The Caved Mines–Total of Shipments in
1863
CHAPTER LIII.
Jim Blaine and his Grandfather’s Ram–Filkin’s Mistake–Old Miss Wagner
and her Glass Eye–Jacobs, the Coffin Dealer–Waiting for a Customer–His
Bargain With Old Robbins–Robbins Sues for Damage and Collects–A New Use
for Missionaries–The Effect–His Uncle Lem. and the Use Providence Made
of Him–Sad Fate of Wheeler–Devotion of His Wife–A Model Monument–What
About the Ram?
CHAPTER LIV.
Chinese in Virginia City–Washing Bills–Habit of Imitation–Chinese
Immigration–A Visit to Chinatown–Messrs. Ah Sing, Hong Wo, See Yup, &c.
CHAPTER LV.
Tired of Virginia City–An Old Schoolmate–A Two Years’ Loan–Acting as
an Editor–Almost Receive an Offer–An Accident–Three Drunken Anecdotes
–Last Look at Mt. Davidson–A Beautiful Incident
CHAPTER LVI.
Off for San Francisco–Western and Eastern Landscapes–The Hottest place
on Earth–Summer and Winter
CHAPTER LVII.
California–Novelty of Seeing a Woman–“Well if it ain’t a Child!”–One
Hundred and Fifty Dollars for a Kiss–Waiting for a turn
CHAPTER LVIII.
Life in San Francisco–Worthless Stocks–My First Earthquake–Reportorial
Instincts–Effects of the Shocks–Incidents and Curiosities–Sabbath
Breakers–The Lodger and the Chambermaid–A Sensible Fashion to Follow–
Effects of the Earthquake on the Ministers
CHAPTER LIX.
Poor Again–Slinking as a Business–A Model Collector–Misery loves
Company–Comparing Notes for Comfort–A Streak of Luck–Finding a Dime–
Wealthy by Comparison–Two Sumptuous Dinners
CHAPTER LX.
An Old Friend–An Educated Miner–Pocket Mining–Freaks of Fortune
CHAPTER LXI.
Dick Baker and his Cat–Tom Quartz’s Peculiarities–On an Excursion–
Appearance On His Return–A Prejudiced Cat–Empty Pockets and a Roving
Life
CHAPTER LXII.
Bound for the Sandwich Islands–The Three Captains–The Old Admiral–His
Daily Habits–His Well Fought Fields–An Unexpected Opponent–The Admiral
Overpowered–The Victor Declared a Hero
CHAPTER LXIII.
Arrival at the Islands–Honolulu–What I Saw There–Dress and Habits of
the Inhabitants–The Animal Kingdom–Fruits and Delightful Effects
CHAPTER LXIV.
An Excursion–Captain Phillips and his Turn-Out–A Horseback Ride–A
Vicious Animal–Nature and Art–Interesting Ruins–All Praise to the
Missionaries
CHAPTER LXV.
Interesting Mementoes and Relics–An Old Legend of a Frightful Leap–An
Appreciative Horse–Horse Jockeys and Their Brothers–A New Trick–A Hay
Merchant–Good Country for Horse Lovers
CHAPTER LXVI.
A Saturday Afternoon–Sandwich Island Girls on a Frolic–The Poi
Merchant–Grand Gala Day–A Native Dance–Church Membership–Cats and
Officials–An Overwhelming Discovery
CHAPTER LXVII.
The Legislature of the Island–What Its President Has Seen–Praying for
an Enemy–Women’s Rights–Romantic Fashions–Worship of the Shark–Desire
for Dress–Full Dress–Not Paris Style–Playing Empire–Officials and
Foreign Ambassadors–Overwhelming Magnificence
CHAPTER LXVIII.
A Royal Funeral–Order of Procession–Pomp and Ceremony–A Striking
Contrast–A Sick Monarch–Human Sacrifices at His Death–Burial Orgies
CHAPTER LXIX.
“Once more upon the Waters.”–A Noisy Passenger–Several Silent Ones–A