CHAPTER XIX.

Journeying Toward the Gold Diggings--Threatened by Wild Horses--Difficulties of Traveling--Convocation of the Feathered Creation--Rejoin Our Friends--Ferrying Across a River--Strike a Gold Prospect--On a Prospecting Tour--An Agreement that Failed--Instructed to go to San Francisco to proceed on a Mission--Trip to Stockton--Gamblers, Sharpers and Miners at that Place--A Temptation Overcome--Arrive in San Francisco--Welcomed by Saints--Receive Kind Treatment--On Hoard a Vessel Bound for Tahiti.