"Lost on the West Coast afterwards--went ashore in that big earthquake and tidal wave.

Parted her anchors, and when she hit under the cliff, the cliff fell on her." "That's the ship.

Well, our crew seemed mostly cow-boys, and bricklayers, and tramps, and more tramps than anything else.

Where the boarding-house masters got them was beyond imagining.

A number of them were shanghaied, that was certain.