You see, he had stolen a revolver from his late masters, and this mysterious weapon created great terror among his new friends.

Altogether he posed as quite a great man, particularly when his story became known.

He worked his way from tribe to tribe, until at length he got to the ranges where I met him--quite a vast distance from the coast.
Many parts of the extensive country I traversed on my southward journey, after the death of the girls, were exceedingly rich in minerals, and particularly in gold, both alluvial and in quartz.

As I was making my way one day through a granite country along the banks of a creek, I beheld some reddish stones, which I at once pounced upon and found to be beautiful rubies.

Having no means of carrying them, however, and as they were of no value whatever to me, I simply threw them away again, and now merely record the fact.