Still there were those who took it, even if months, five or six, it might be, were consumed in the journey.

The gold they sought would compensate them at last.

These too had to encounter storms, face probable shipwreck or contend with grim death.

Many who sold all to equip themselves, who turned away from home and kindred, for a time they thought, to enrich themselves, who would surely return to their loved ones with untold treasure, never fulfilled their desire.

Some perished in the voyage, others died in San Francisco, and were laid to rest till the final day in her cemeteries by the heaving ocean.