133. Richard Owens, one of Fremont's original party and captain of Company A, California Battalion. Owens River, Owens Valley, and Owens Lake were named for him.
134. Fremont challenged Mason because he considered himself insulted by the latter's manner in issuing orders. Mason requested that the affair be postponed until he had com- pleted his duties at Los Angeles. The meeting never occurred because Kearny, on learn- ing of the proposed duel, prevented it by official order.
135. William A. T. Maddox, lieutenant of Marines on the Cyane and Congress.
136. J. Parker Norris had been sent east by Stockton with dispatches in September 1846.
137. Henry Delano Fitch, one of the earliest and most popular of the foreign settlers in California.
138. ^ the doctor's instruction to the pharmacist, an abbreviation from the Latin meaning "take thou," or "take thou of." Massa ex Hyd. Ext Colocynth is mercury with extract of bitter apple; the remainder of the prescription is unintelligible. Ol Ricini 3j — two tablespoonfuls of castor oil.
139. For a description of this ball see The Journal of John McHenry Hollingsworth of the First New York Volunteers (San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1923), p. 30.
140. Bancroft lists these men as belonging to Company G, New York Volunteers.
