CHAPTER XII.

Puget Sound to San Francisco.--A Model Vessel.--The Captain's Relation to his Men.--Rough Water.--Beauty of the Sea.--Golden-Gate Entrance.--San Francisco Streets.--Santa Barbara.--Its Invalids.--Our Spanish Neighbors.--The Mountains and the Bay.--Kelp.--Old Mission.--A Simoom.--The Channel Islands.--A New Type of Chinamen.--An Old Spanish House. 182