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They are a lazy lot. {{unclear]] the large men of them are loafers at home & came out here expecting to pick up gold without work -- The usual picture is one man leisurely digging in a hole, while a dozen others are setting around looking on & commenting.

  After an hours march this am I found miners camps. The occupants of which were yet burrowed in profound slumbers.
  Eating sleeping & loafing are the principle unknown & I am sure I today passed 50 idle miners to