We Always
Preserved Them As Trophies, And At The End Of The Summer Had Quite
A Number.
None of our people were ever bitten by them, but one of
our dogs died of a bite, and another was supposed to have been bitten,
but recovered.
We had no remedy for the bite, though it was said that
the Indians of the country had, and the Kanakas professed to have an
herb which would cure it, but it was fortunately never brought to the test.
Hares and rabbits, as I said before, were abundant, and, during the
winter months, the waters are covered with wild ducks and geese.
Crows, too, were very numerous, and frequently alighted in great
numbers upon our hides, picking at the pieces of dried meat and fat.
Bears and wolves are numerous in the upper parts, and in the interior,
(and, indeed, a man was killed by a bear within a few miles of
San Pedro, while we were there,) but there were none in our
immediate neighborhood. The only other animals were horses.
Over a dozen of these were owned by different people on the beach,
and were allowed to run loose among the hills, with a long lasso
attached to them, and pick up feed wherever they could find it.
We were sure of seeing them once a day, for there was no water
among the hills, and they were obliged to come down to the well
which had been dug upon the beach. These horses were bought at,
from two, to six and eight dollars apiece, and were held very much
as common property.
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