# Mountains and molehills; or, Recollections of a burnt journal

Author: Marryat, Frank, 1826-1855

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69412

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Mountains+and+molehills%3B+or%2C+Recollections+of+a+burnt+journal+Marryat&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I landed with as much expedition as possible, and commenced at once to bargain for a canoe to take me up the river. This I at last effected at an exorbitant price, and on the express condition that we should not start until sunset. A few months back the native Indians of this place considered themselves amply repaid with a few dollars for a week’s work, but since the Californian emigration has lined their pockets with American eagles, they have assumed American independence: and now the civilised traveller, instead of kicking the naked aborigine into his canoe, or out of it as his humour prompts, has to bargain with a “padrone,” as he calls himself, dressed in a coloured muslin shirt and...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/48/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/36/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/39/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/44/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/38/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/35/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/42/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/37/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/41/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/34/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/40/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/43/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/45/index.md)
- [PART TWO.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/47/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/22/index.md)
- [PART ONE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/46/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mountains-and-molehills-or-recollections-of-a-burnt-journal-69412/chapters/21/index.md)