This Latter, A Brave American Officer, Fought In The Late Struggle At Rome (1848). I Perfectly Recollect, That, Pointing With A Smile To Our Barricade, I Told This Kenworthy, We Had Thrown Them Up For Our Defence Against Licence-Hunting.

There is a living witness to the above circumstance, a countryman of mine, whose name I do not remember just now, but he wore at the time a red shirt, with picks and shovels all over it.

Previous to this, Vern, whose silly vanity would by no means allow him to put up with his not having been elected Commander-in-Chief, all on a sudden cried out in his sort of bombast, "Here they are coming, boys: now I will lead you to death or victory!" - actually a band of men was tramping full speed towards the stockade.

Chapter L

Narravere Patres Nostri Et Nos Narravimus Omnes.

Was it then the long, long-looked for German Rifle Brigade? Here is it's four-horned name - I copy from a slip of paper I wrote in pencil on that very Saturday, as the name was too long and difficult for me to remember - 'The Independent Californian Rangers' Revolver Brigade.'

I should say they numbered a couple of hundred, looking Californian enough, armed with a Colt's revolver of large size, and many had a Mexican knife at the hip.

Here is the very circumstance when M`Gill made his appearance for the first time within the stockade; I recollect perfectly well the circumstance when a Mr. Smith, of the American Adams's Express, was holding the bridle of the horse, from which said M`Gill dismounted.

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