Chapter XXXVII

Become Desperately Ill--Nursed Back to Consciousness--Kindness of an Aged Spanish Couple--Belt with Money Entrusted to me Disappears--Intense Anxiety--Discover the Money--Great Suffering--Land at San Pedro--Left on the Beach--Drag Myself to the Shelter of an Old Wall--Kindness of a Spaniard and His Wife--A Terrible Night--Seek a Passage to Los Angeles with Freighters--Refusals--Meet a Kind Teamster--Reach Los Angeles--Dumped on the Street--Find Shelter, but a Chilly Welcome--Start Next Morning, Sick and Hungry, to Find a New Place--So Ill I have to Lie Down in the Street--Two Friends from San Bernardino--Am Told that I have the Smallpox--My Friends Give me Money and start in Search of a House where I can be Cared for--Failing to Secure a Room, they Engage the City Marshal to get a Place, and they Leave for San Bernardino--I wander for Shelter, but Doors are Closed, and People Avoid me--Lodge in a Doctor's Office while the Doctor is out--Scare the People by Shouting "Smallpox!"--The Doctor Returns but Leaves me in Possession.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

City Marshal and Doctor Come to Remove me--Taken to a Deserted House, which had been Used as a Sheepfold--Bedded In Sheep Manure--An Indian Nurse who Becomes Frightened--Spanish Nurse Sent to me--In a boat with Patient Job--My Fever Increases--Attacked by Robbers--Relieved by City Marshal with Posse--Marshal takes the Money I have in my care, for Safe Keeping--Spanish Nurse Scared off--Queer Sailor Nurse--He Drinks Whisky, Sings and Dances--His Thoughtful Care of me--Visited by my Cousin--Kindness of San Bernardino Saints--Recovering from my Illness--My Clothing Burned--Heavy Expense Bill Against me--Tell the City Marshal of my Arrival in California as a United States Soldier in the Mexican War--Kindness of the Marshal--Los Angeles Assumes the Bill for Medical Attention Given me--Start for San Bernardino--Exhausted on the Journey--Almost Die of Thirst--Relieved by a Party of Spanish Ladies--Kindness of Spanish Families--Arrive at San Bernardino and Meet Friends and Relatives