CHAPTER VIII.

The Missourians--Pike county: their appearance--Humanising effects of California--Difference between the outward-bound Californians and the same men on their return home--The accomplishments of the Missourians--A phrenologer--A jury of miners--A civil suit--We buy a claim--A “brush-house”--Rats: how to circumvent them--Rat-shooting, 146-160