Adrift in the Wilds; Or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys

CHAPTER I.

HO, FOR CALIFORNIA.

One beautiful misummer night in 18-- a large, heavily laden steamer was making her way swiftly up the Pacific coast, in the direction of San Francisco. She was opposite the California shore, only a day's sail distant from the City of the Golden Gate, and many of the passengers had already begun making preparations for landing, even though a ...