CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST.--Dangerous Navigation--A Trip over the Falls--A

Night from Home--Sailor Hospitality--Scarcity of Provisions--A Hazardous Alternative--A Wayward Boy--Preparations for leaving the Interior--Distribution of Effects--Our Traveling Suit--Start for San Francisco--Farewell--Three Individuals under a Full Head of Steam--Arrival at the “Half-Way Tent”--Poor Accommodations--A Morning Walk and Poor Breakfast--Wading Lagoons--Wild Geese--Arrival at the American River--Our Toilet, and entry into Sacramento City, 123