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| Leave Virginia City—Rudeness at stage office—Amiable people!—The landscape—Christianity!—The lady at the hack complains—'Dutch Flat' a pretty village—Concert—Audience very quiet—'Taken in!'—Effect of certain passages—What I perceive here—Artistic ignorance, an example of it—Sick for three days—Nowhere in Europe could I be so isolated as here—What I have done—The country of money not the one for artist—From 'Dutch Flat' to Nevada City—Adieu to my spleen—'Grass Valley' charming—Nevada City—Fine spacious hotels—Concert at Temperance Hall—The audience—Have already given twelve concerts—Fatigue and danger of these travels—California a humbug!—The thousand and one things wanting—Leave on steamer Julia for Stockton—Weber Hotel—Stockton resembles Sacramento on a small scale—Concert small—Judge Underhill—Pastor Happersett—Newspaper concludes that "I do not know how to play the piano"—Insane hospital—The German baron—Colfax—'Who then is this Goldax?'—Presented on my fête day with a splendid medal—Its description, and all the details of the presentation—Its cost—On board the Colorado—Coast of Costa Rica—Purgatory—What not!—Left San Francisco on the 18th—Heat suffocating—Magnificent moonlight scene—The passengers—King Kamehameha V. and the Sandwich Islands—Mendoza—Captain Cook—Kanak religion—Polygamy—Sisters and daughters wives—Queen Kalama—Only the mother who ennobles—Honolulu—Victoria, sister of present king—Uniform of the king—'Manzanillo,' a Mexican town—Piroques and young Mexicans—A monstrous tortoise—An imperial soldier—Acapulco—Only a small borough—The French returned here—Mexican soldiers—The general!—What town depopulated | 388 |
