Chapter I. The flag.-Meeting of citizens.-Disposition of freces.-Col. fremontīs band.-Alcalde of Monterrey...

Chapter II. Fecundity of the Californians.-First intelligence of the war.-Wild Indians on board ship...

Chapter III. A thif obeying orders.-Game.-No penitentiary system.-The California cart on a galaday.-The Runaway...

Chapter IV. Funeral ceremonies.-Elected alcalde.-Flight of gen. Castro.-Los Angeles taken.-Oven-bath.-Grog in a chimney

Chapter V. Fire on the mountains.-Emigrants.-Pistols and pillows.-Leaders of the insurrection.-California plough...

Chapter VI. Santa Barbara Taken.-Lieut. talbot and his ten.-Gambling in prison.-Recruits.-A funny culprit.-Movements...

Chapter VII. San José Garrisoned.- A California rain.-Escape of convicts.-Shooting edwards.-Two washerwomen...

Chapter VIII. Little adelaida.-Col. fremontīs battalion.-Santiago in love.-Sentiments of an old California...

Chapter IX. Day of saontos innocentes.-Lettin off a lake.-Arrival of the dale with home letters.-The dead yer...

Chapter X. Destruction of dogs.-The wash-tub mail.-The surrender in the morth.-Robbing the Californians...

Chapter XI. Arrival of the lexington.-The march to los Angeles, and battle of San Gabriel.-The capitulation...

Chapter XII. Return of T. O. Larkin.-The tall partner in the Californian.-Mexivan officers.-The cyane.-War mementoes...

Chapter XIII. The people of Monterey.-The guitar and runaway wifw.-Mother ordered to flog her son...

Chapter XIV. A convict who would not work.-Lawyers at Monterey.-Who Conquered California.-Ride to a rancho...

Chapter XV. A California pic-nic.-Seventy and seventeen in the dance.-Children in the grove.-A California bear-hunt...

Chapter XVI. A Californian jealous of his wifw.-Hospitality of the natives.-Honors to Guadalupe...

Chapter XVII. Rains in California.-Functions of the alcalde of Monterey.-Orphans in California.-Slip of the gallows rope...

Chapter XVIII. First discovery of gold.-Prision guard.-Incredulity about the gold.-Effects of the gold fever...

Chapter XIX. Tour to the gold-mines.-Loss of horses.-First night in the woods.-Arrival at San Juan.-Under way...

Chapter XX. The grave of a gold-hunter.-Mountain spurs.-A company of sonoranians.-A night alarm...

Chapter XXI. Lump of gold lost.-Indians at their game of arrows.-Camp of the gold-hunters...

Chapter XXII. Visit to the sonoranian camp.-Festivities and gambling.-The doctor and teamster...

Chapter XXIII. Natural amphitheatre.-No scientific clue to the deposits of gold.-Soil of the mines...

Chapter XXIV. A lady in the mountains.-Town of stockton.-Crossing the valley of the San Joaquin...

Chapter XXV. Cause of sickness in the mines.-The quicksilver mines.-Heat and cold in the mines...

Chapter XXVI. The public domain.-Scenery around Monterey.-Vineyards of los Angels.-Beauty of San Diego...

Chapter XXVII. The gold region.-Its locality, nature, and extent.-Foreigners in the mines.-The Indiansī discovery of gold...

Chapter XXVIII. Ride of col. fremont from Los Angeles to Monterey and back.-The party.-The relays.-Character...

Chapter XXIX. The tragedy at San Miguel.-Court and culprits.-Age and circumstances of tjose who should come to California...

Chapter XXX. The gold-bearing quartz.-Their locality.-Richness and extent.-Specimens and doubtful conclusions...

Chapter XXXI. Glances at towns sprung and springing.- San Francisco.-Benicia.-Sacramento city.-Sutter...

Chapter XXXII. Brief notices of persons whose portraits embellish this volume, and who are prominently...

Chapter XXXIII. The mission establishments in California.-Their origin, objects, localities, lands, revenues, overthrow...