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Three Years in California by John D. Borthwick (1857)(LoC) (423 pages)
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Page: of 423
364 FRENCHMEN IN THE MINES,
than was suggested by the generality of the rude
abodes of the miners. It is very certain that, withi out really expending more time or labour, or even
taking more trouble than other men about their
domestic arrangements, they did “fix things up”
with such a degree of taste, and with so much method
about everything, as to give the idea that their life
of toil was mitigated by more than a usual share of
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. ease and comfort.
A backwoodsman from the Western States is in
some respects a good sort of fellow to be with in the
mountains, especially where there are hostile Indians
. about, for he knows their ways, and can teach them
manners with his five-foot-barrel rifle when there is
occasion for it; he can also put up a log-cabin in
no time, and is of course up to all the dodges of border
life ; but this is his normal condition, and he cannot be expected to appreciate so much as others, or to
} be so apt at introducing, all the little luxuries of a
more civilised existence of which he has no know:
. ledge. oe
. An old sailor is a useful man in the mines, when
you can keep brandy out of his reach ; and, to do him
justice, there is method in his manner of drinking.
ence should be subdivided, as at sea, into watches ; for
when ashore he only lengthens their duration, and
takes his watch below as a regular matter of duty,
. keeping below as long as the grog lasts ; after which
he comes on deck again, quite refreshed, and remains
. He lives under the impression that all human exist-