These to me were curious little follows and I examined them closely and concluded there was a vast difference between gold and lead mining.

Williams became more friendly and we told him something about our journey across the plains, and he seemed to think that we deserved a good claim.

He went to a dry gulch where a Spaniard was working and told him that all of California, now that the war was over, belonged to Americans and he must leave.

Williams had his gun in his hand and war might follow, so Mr.Spaniard left and his claim was presented to Bennett and myself.
Williams had been twice to Santa Fe from Missouri and had learned the Spanish language and could swear at them by note if necessary.

We now began work almost without tools, but our ground we had to work was quite shallow and Williams helped us out by loaning us some of his tools at times.