CONTENTS
CHAPTER IV.
PESCADERO TO SANTA CRUZ.
Down the Coast toward Santa Cruz.—The Moss and Shell Beaches of Pescadero.—A Disgusted Hunter.—A Grizzly Bear Procession.—A Mutual Surprise and Double Stampede.—The Bear Fever.—The Buck Fever and the Prairie-Hen Fever.—How Jim Wheeler killed the Buck.—How Old S. killed three at one shot.—A Spanish-American Gentleman of Scientific Attainments and Undoubted Veracity.—View of the Bay of Monterey and the Valley and Mountains of Santa Cruz.
CHAPTER V.
SANTA CRUZ AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.
The Bay of Santa Cruz and its Surroundings.—The Natural Bridge.—Mussel men, their Dangers and Delight.—Adventure with a Sea-Lion.—Uninvited Guest at a Picnic.—An Embarcadero.—Sea Bathing.—Big Trees of Santa Cruz.—Caves.— Mountain Rides.—Supposed Ruins.—Up the Valley of the San Lorenzo.—The Mountain Honeysuckle and Madroño.—Over the Mountains again.—The Redwood.—And what a Fall was there my Countrymen!—How they broke Jail.—Down the Valley of Los Gatos.—Strange Rise and Fall of the Streams of the Coast Range,—Out of the Wilderness.
CHAPTER VI.
IN THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO.
Cosmopolitanism of San Francisco.—Its Street Panoramas and Pictures and Sounds.—An Autumn Morning.—The "Barbary Coast."—The Chinese Missionary.—Factory Hands on Holiday.—Funeral of Ah Sam.—A Chinese Faction-fight.—An Equestrian Outfit.—The Poundmaster's Van.—General Stampede, its Cause and its Course.—The Pine-apple Plant.—The Passers-by.
