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NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

No. CXXXIX. DECEMBER, 1861.-VOL. XXIV.

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A GRIZZLY IN THE CAMP.

THE COAST RANGERS.

A CHRONICLE OF EVENTS IN CALIFORNIA.

IV. THE GRIZZLY.

generally run away from fire with some con

AGRIZZLY in camp!-run for your fidence in he can never feel quite sureurs

him; but of a grizzly. These ferocious animals are wonderfully active. It is all a mistake to suppose that they can not climb a tree. Not only can they

The cry is startling, and the sensation that results from it is peculiar. Even the cry of fire at midnight is less impressive. One can

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by Harper and Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

VOL. XXIV.-No. 139.-A

do so with perfect ease, but if you get out on a slender branch, in the expectation that it is not possible for any thing larger than a wild-cat to follow you, they will shake you out of it as easily as if you were a ripe chestnut.

by signs or symbols, we first shape them in words. Hence it is some of our most eloquent speakers in Congress, after they have exhausted every idea, become so dry that, though they may talk on for hours, the brain yields nothing more. It is precisely on the same principle that noted tobacco-chewers become exceedingly stupid when they get out of tobacco. As long as they are chewing their thoughts flow rapidly, and they either talk or expectorate copiously. I hold the latter habit to be very injurious, and a serious loss to civilization. There is no telling how many valuable thoughts are spit away by the citizens of California in the course of a single day. I venture to say that many a noble poem, and many a valuable treatise on philosophy, have

On the present occasion the scene was particularly striking. We were just about to sit down to supper. The fire was in full blaze and the moon shining pleasantly through the trees. Under the supervision of Mr. Tom Fry, our physician, Dr. Campbell, had prepared a magnificent fish chowder. The condiments were perfect; the odor was absolutely inspiring-so much so, indeed, that "the General" burst forth spontaneously into the song of the Little Black Elephant. Captain Toby suggested that there was but one essential ingredient lacking in the chow-been scattered upon the pavements of our prinder, without which it could not possibly be nourishing-he referred to vinegar, and proposed to pour the contents of the blue keg into it. Mr. Phil Wilkins was of opinion that it would be all the same with or without the vinegar, for that taste was a mere arbitrary matter, depending wholly upon the condition of the mucous membrane. "Colors," said he, "are nothing in themselves, but assume certain aspects under certain conditions-as, for example, in the case of Caspar Hauser, who, when taken from prison, where he had been immured in the dark for years, could distinguish nothing before him but confused masses of lights and shades."

cipal cities, or carried out of our public hotels in ugly earthen vases, and forever lost to the world.'

"I admit that there is some force in what you say," observed the Judge, who perceived that Mr. Wilkins was about to abandon the subject of chowder, and become involved in a labyrinth of peculiar theories; "; yet, after all, it may be said, on the other side—”

Here it was that the terrific cry arose, "A grizzly in camp! Run, boys!-run for your lives!"

I was lying on my back, at a little distance from the fire, looking up at the stars. The discussion between Phil Wilkins and the Judge fell pleasantly on my ear, but my thoughts were on the great future of Bear Harbor. What might

five! Here we were, a small party, surrounded by a wilderness of mountains, rocks, and roaring breakers, with nothing but our mother earth to sleep on and the broad heavens for our canopy. It was easy and natural to picture the change that time might produce when it would be a populous and thriving community, with public buildings, offices, hotels, warehouses, and all accompaniments of civilization.

"For the very obvious reason"-observed the Judge, who had hitherto contented himself by giving the chowder an occasional stir with the ladle, and sniffing the steam as it curled up-be made of such a place in ten years-nay, in "for the obvious reason, my dear Sir, that Caspar Hauser had never experienced the difference between colors; but you surely will not undertake to say that there is any gentleman present who has not, at various periods of his life, partaken of fish chowder in many of its most seductive forms. Although it is supposed to be peculiarly an American dish, derived from the plantation negroes of the South, there can be no doubt that it was well known to the Romans. Next to the tongues of nightingales, it is an established historical fact that the Emperors, at their grand feasts, held the gills and intestines of mountain trout in the highest esteem; and one of their favorite and most costly dishes was a chowder composed chiefly of these ingredients, with a seasoning of bird-lime, asafoetida, garlic, ambergris, olive-oil, saltpetre, gum-arabic, tincture of rhubarb, and the excrement of wildboars."

"Which proves exactly what I said," remarked Mr. Wilkins, "that tastes are arbitrary. But I go much farther than that. I contend, Sir, that there is no such thing as Taste; that the system of infinitesimal canals, or ducts, which reach from the brain to the palate, is designed by Nature exclusively for the transmission of thoughts. Do we not give utterance to our ideas as soon as they reach the tongue; and often attempt to do so before the words can be formed? Even when we write, or express them

Taking into view the remarkable progress of California, it certainly is not anticipating too much to look forward to the day when Bear Harbor will be a great emporium of commerce and industry. At present, it is true, there is no way of reaching this favored locality except over Captain Toby's trails, which, as I have already stated, must have been originally intended for wild goats. Yet I do not regard that as an insuperable obstacle. Wherever goats can travel so can public funds. The only difference is that the latter are a good deal harder to catch after they once get loose from the Treasury. All that is needed is an appropriation from Congress.

Access to Bear Harbor by means of water would be easy enough if there was any harbor there.

Vessels might then anchor when they arrived. Unfortunately it is an open roadstead filled with rocks, and presenting altogether a most frightful aspect in bad weather. It derives its name not so much from its natural commercial facilities as from the number of

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bears that come down the various cañons every where nature never intended commerce to exist, night in search of mussels and dead fish. Still this can not be regarded as any serious obstruction to Federal enterprise. Have we not breakwaters in many places on our Atlantic coast

and where, accordingly, none does and never can exist? If not there, we certainly have a sufficient number of precedents in the line of internal improvements.

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