Chapter XII

Puget Sound to San Francisco.--A Model Vessel.--The
Captain's Relation to his Men.--Rough Water.--Beauty of the
Sea.--Golden-Gate Entrance.--San Francisco Streets.--Santa
Barbara.--Its Invalids.--Our Spanish Neighbors.--The
Mountains and the Bay.--Kelp.--Old Mission.--A Simoom.--The
Channel Islands.--A New Type of Chinamen.--An Old Spanish
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