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Three Years in California by John D. Borthwick (1857)(LoC) (423 pages)
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Page: of 423
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DIGGER INDIANS— THEIR LOVE OF DRESS— THEIR DOGS — THEIR
FOOD—THEIR INGENUITY—INDIAN FEMALE BEAUTY, OR OTHERWISE — “ HUNTING” THE INDIANS, AND TEACHING THEM MANNERS—COON HOLLOW —COYOTE DIGGINGS — COYOTES —WEAVER
CREEK—THE WEATHER AND THE CLIMATE— CHINAMEN— A
CELESTIAL “Muss.”
WirHIN a few miles of us there was camped a large
tribe of Indians, who were generally quite peaceable,
and showed no hostility to the whites.
Small parties of them were constantly to be seen
in Hangtown, wandering listlessly about the street,
begging for bread, meat, or old clothes. These
Digger Indians, as they are called, from the fact of
their digging for themselves a sort of subterranean
abode in which they pass the winter, are most
repulsive-looking wretches, and seem to be very
little less degraded and uncivilisable than the blacks
of New South Wales.
They are nearly black, and are exceedingly ugly,
with long hair, which they cut straight across the
forehead just above the eyes. They had learned the
value of gold, and might be seen occasionally in