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The Nurse Patrocina Died In Los Angeles Last Summer And The
Crying Kid Jesusita She Had On The Boat When
You went from
Ehrenberg to the mouth of the River grew up to be the finest
looking Girl in these
Parts; She was the Star witness in a murder
trial in Los Angeles last winter, and her picture was in all of
the Papers.
I am sending you a picture of the Steamer "Mojave" which was not
on the river when you were here. I made 20 trips with her up to
the Virgin River, which is 145 miles above Fort Mojave, or 75
miles higher than any other man has gone with a boat: she was 10
feet longer than the "Gila" or any other boat ever on the River.
(Excuse this blowing but it's the truth).
In 1864 I was on a trip down the Gulf of California, in a small
sail boat and one of my companions was John Stanton. In Angel's
Bay a man whom we were giving a passage to, murdered my partner
and ran off with the boat and left Charley Ticen, John Stanton
and myself on the beach. We were seventeen days tramping to a
village with nothing to eat but cactus but I think I have told
you the story before and what I want to know, is this Stanton
alive. He belonged to New Bedford - his father had been master of
a whale-ship.
When we reached Guaymas, Stanton found a friend, the mate of a
steamer, the mate also belonged to New Bedford.
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