CHAPTER XXXVI.

Arrive at San Francisco--A Wrecked Ship--The _Abyssinia_ Condemned--Gathering Wreckage--Drunken sailors--My Trunk Held for Hospital Fees--Go Ashore, where all Is Changed and Strange--My Dilapidated Appearance--Seek Guidance of the Lord--Wander Almost in Despair--Meet an Old Friend--Find a Home--My Trunk Released--Meet Elders Going on Missions--Well Treated by Saints and Strangers--Providences of the Lord--Outward Bound Elders Entrusted Money to me for their Families--Engage to Carry Mail to Los Angeles--On a Steamer for San Pedro--Taken Severely Ill.