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The most that troubled me on the road, was the fear of bad news from Home, when I would get here I feared for your health I think about one/3 of those who start to go through will back out a, great many are doing so now, and about one/3 will die, they deserve too before they start, and some of them are dying. a large majority of the Californians are desperate fellows, and they practice most all kinds of crime, and of course they will, in many instances pay the penalty before they get through, we have been as regular in our habits as circumstances would allow, are generly in bed about 8 oclock, I weighed the day I left Peoria 135 lbs I stept on the scales when I got here and weighed almost 141 making a gain of nearly 6 lbs in 4 weeks I lug? it to the good cakes my female friends furnished me with shall not forget them, when I get to the gold dust, the cakes lasted nearly 3 weeks, she had just got out of flour and hams as Hughes came, you can judge of our appetite when you think of 3 of us eating in 4 weeks 100 lbs flour 100 lbs hams, bacon and beef with what eggs and potatoes we wanted the cakes you saw? and a bag full Mis OBrien sent but our labor and fatigue have been same, we missed it in sending by water, there is 3 steam mills here, Flour four dollars, the Barrel?, Bacon