CHAPTER XX.

Want of water--Canals--Engineering difficulties--Volcano Diggings--Boiling dirt--Northern and southern mines--Difference in scenery, gold, and inhabitants--Visit to a cave--Whist and chess--Mexican horse-thieves--Crossing the Moquelumne--Chilian miners--An Indian cavalcade, 301-312

San Andres--A ragged camp--Mexicans--Gambling-rooms--Music--A church--Throwing the lasso--Lynch law--An execution--Angel’s Camp--Chinese--A ball--The “Lancers”--The Highland Fling, 313-322