I rode back across the country and found Mr.Bennett and family at the point where the Salinas river enters Monterey Bay.

They were all well, and were glad to see me for they did not know I was in California.

Mrs.Bennett was greatly affected at our meeting and shed tears of joy as she shook hands.
Bennett had a nice Whitehall boat and we had a genuine happy time hunting, fishing and gathering clams, and also in social visits among the neighbors and old acquaintances, among them one Jacob Rhodehouse of Wisconsin.
While here I rode my horse around to Monterey and to Carmel Mission, where I staid two or three days, with Mr.Gourley, a brother of Mrs.
William M.Stockton, who was here engaged in raising potatoes.

I walked along the beach near some rocky islands near the shore, and on these rocks were more sea lions and seals than I supposed the whole ocean contained--the most wonderful show of sea life on the California coast.
Returning I staid all night at the crossing of the Salinas with a colored family who gave me good accommodations for self and horse.

I heard afterward that this family was attacked by robbers and all but one murdered.
Mrs.Bennett's father D.J.Dilley lived near here also, and I had not seen him since the time in Wisconsin, when he hauled my canoe over to the river in 1849.