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Bishop Kip's Letter. Stay at San Diego. No. 5, 1854. Holograph manuscript of letter published in The Spirit of Missions. [continued]
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The steerage passengers, amounting to about three hundred, have been most of them quartered in a deserted hotel, just beyond the town, built some years ago on a speculation, which failed. Here they are divided into messes, and daily rations given by the Purser of the steamer. A schooner has come in, and the agent is trying to induce a hundred of them to go in her, to prevent the “Columbia” from being overloaded, but though he offers them five dollars apiece premiums, besides a dollar a day during the voyage, they hold back, suspicious of some deception. In the meantime, the “Columbia” is exerting all her force to get off the “Golden Gate.” Sunday has come – our first Sunday in California. Opposite to us, near the little Romish chapel, are four bells tied to a frame work by thongs of oxhide. When it is time for mass, two little boys mount the fence by them and beat them with a stone in each hand. They have been ringing at different hours this morning, and the people coming to the chapel … [next] Pages: cover 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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