CHAPTER XI.

Pine-trees--Sugar-pines--Woodpeckers and acorns--Quartz veins--Coyote Diggings--Speculative mining--Hiring out--Average yield of the mines--Loafers--An old sailor on a spree--Start for the Yuba--Vegetables--An old friend--“Packing”--Mexican packers and pack-mules, 188-198