By the aid of my notes I could very easily remember everything that had taken place during my absence, and it was recorded in regular form, with day and date, not an incident of any importance left out, and every word as true as gospel.

I had neither exaggerated nor detracted from any event so far as I could recollect.
I now loaned Mr.Hall, with whom I lived, six hundred dollars to enable him to cross the plains to California and try to make his fortune.

To secure this I took a mortgage on his eighty-acre farm, and he set out to make the journey.

I had another eighty acres of land near here which I bought at government price before going to California, but I could not now sell it for what it cost me.

When I went away I had left my chest and contents with my friend Samuel Zollinger, and he had kept it safely, so I now made him my lawful agent.