"Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Why o'er th…"

"January, 14th, 1835: We came to anchor in the spacious bay of Santa Barbara. There was only one vessel in the port. B…"

"I shall never forget the impression which our first landing on the beach of California make upon me. The sun had just…"

"If the women but have little virtue, the jealousy of their husbands is extreme, and their revenge deadly and almost c…"

"An overstrained sense of manliness is the characteristic of seafaring men. This often gives an appearance of want of …"

"Referring to a professor aboard ship: This passenger — the first and only one we had had, except to go from port to p…"

"Passing round Point Conception, and steering easterly, we opened the islands that form, with the mainland, the canal …"

"It had been the winter of 1835-6 that the ship, Alert, in her voyage for hides on the remote and almost unknown coast…"

"We bore round the point toward the old anchoring ground of the hide ships, and there, covering the sand hills and the…"

"As we made the high point off San Diego, Point Loma, we were greeted by the cheering presence of a lighthouse. As we …"