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Showing Inside of Fort from Wharf Street, 1859 122
Hon. Amor De Cosmos 144
William P. Sayward 144
Thomas Harris 144
Bishop Garrett 144
First Methodist Church 150
First Bridge Over the Gorge, Victoria Arm 160
Forty Years Ago, Queen's Birthday, Beacon Hill - 160
Colonial Hotel 200
H. B. Co.'s Steamer Beaver 200
Part of View Street, 1859 200
Victoria District Church, 1859 200
Hon. Senator Macdonald 204
Lt: Col. Wolfenden, I.S.O., V.D. 204
Wm. Leigh 204
John Chapman Davie, M.D. 204
Edgar Fawcett 212
Captain "Willie" Mitchell 216
Hon. Dr. Helmcken 216
Gov. John H. Johnson, of Minnesota 216
Samuel Booth 216
Rev. Edward Cridge, 1859 244
Venerable Bishop Cridge 244
Bishop and Mrs. Cridge at their Golden Jubilee 244
A Park in San Bernardino 288
Songhees Indian Reserve 288
Bastion?S. W. Corner of Fort 288
SOME REMINISCENCES OF
OLD VICTORIA
CHAPTER I.
THE EXPERIENCES OF A. BRITISH BOY IN SAN FRANCISCO IN THE EARLY FIFTIES.
I SHALL commence by saying that I, with my father, mother, brother and sister, arrived in San Francisco in 1850, in the ship Victoria, from Australia, where I was born. From stress of weather we put into Honolulu to refit, and spent, I think, three weeks there, and as my mother was not in good health the change and rest on shore did her a deal of good. During our stay we became acquainted with a wealthy American sugar planter, who was married to a pretty native lady. They had no family, and she fell in love with your humble servant, who was of the mature age of two and a half years. My mother, of course, told me of this years later, how that after consulting with her husband, the planter, she seriously proposed to my mother that she give me to her for adoption as her son; that I should be well provided for in the case of her husband's death, and in fact she made the most liberal offers if she might have me for her own. It might have been a very important epoch in my life, for if my mother had accepted, who knows but what I might have been " King of the Hawaiian Islands," as the planter's wife was " well con-
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