CHAPTER XIX.

THE DIGGER INDIANS AND NEGROES.

Indolence and Insignificance of the Digger Indians--What they eat--Means of obtaining the Necessaries of Life--Their Habits and Peculiarities--An Incident at a Slaughterhouse--The Negroes in California--The case of a New Orleans Sea-captain and his Slave Joe--A North Carolinian and his two Negroes 268