| My sole amusement during that first dreary day [in
Virginia City] was in gazing out upon the street. Here I saw
more Chinese than I had before beheld, and more Indians. The
latter, I am happy to say, are to a considerable degree
accepting the situation, and becoming civilized and
Christianized. When sorely pinched the noble red man will bow
his proud neck over the saw-horse to earn his daily tobacco
and whiskey, and allow his squaw to earn their bread and
potatoes by washing. |