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Page 1. Sacramento Oct 10th 1877 underlined: Friends three . The Chico flagship I are safely arrived in Sacramento, unwrecked,
unsnagged, the whole winding way was one glorious strip of enjoyment. When I bade you goodbye, on the bank I was benumbed
bent down with your lavish kind nesses like one of your vine laden willows. it is seldom that I ex perience much difficultly
in leaving civilization for Gods wilds, but I was loathe indeed to leave you three that day after our long free ramble in
the mountain woods that five weeks rest in your cool fruity home. The last I saw of you was Miss Kennedy White among the leaves
like a fleck of mist, then sweeping around a bend you were all gone the old wildness came back, I began to observe, enjoy,
be myself again. My first camp was made 00314