I bought of Rodman M.Price a surveyor's compass, chain, etc., and, in San Francisco, a small wagon and harness.
Availing ourselves of a schooner, chartered to carry Major Miller and two companies of the Second Infantry from San Francisco to Stockton, we got up to our destination at little cost.

I recall an occurrence that happened when the schooner was anchored in Carquinez Straits, opposite the soldiers' camp on shore.

We were waiting for daylight and a fair wind; the schooner lay anchored at an ebb-tide, and about daylight Ord and I had gone ashore for something.

Just as we were pulling off from shore, we heard the loud shouts of the men, and saw them all running down toward the water.

Our attention thus drawn, we saw something swimming in the water, and pulled toward it, thinking it a coyote; but we soon recognized a large grizzly bear, swimming directly across the channel.