The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-07

the interior was fine plain coun-
try filed Win herds OF cattle, in the
center of wFlch was the Pueblo Of Los
Angeles-the largest town in California
and several Of the largest missiOnsi
to all Of which san Pedro was the sea
port
"The next day we pulled the agent
ashore, and he went up to visit the
pueblo and the neig; boring missions,
and in a few days as the result of his
lahors, large OK carts and drOves Of
mules, loaded with hides, were seen
coming over the fiat country.
Human Pack Animals.
we loaded our long boat with goods
or all kinds. light and heavy, and
pulled ashore. After landing and roll
ing them over the stones on the beach,
we stopped, waiting for the carts to
come down the hill and take them,
but the captain soon settled the mat
Ter by ordering Us TO carry them all
UP to the top. saying that was the
+ california fashion. So what the oxen
would not do, we were obliged 10 do.
The hill was low. but steep, and the
earth being clayey and wet with re-
cent rains, was bad holding ground
for our feet The heavy barrels and
casks we rolled up with some difficulty,
getting behind and putting our Shout
ders to them, now and then our feet
slipping, added to the danger of the
casks rolling back on US. But the
greatest trouble was the large boxes
Of sugar. These we had to place upon
oars. and lifting them up, rest the
oars upon our shoulders. and creep
slowly Up the hill with the gait of a
funeral procession.
after an hour or two of hard work.
we got them all up, and found the
! carts standing fun Of hides, which we
had to unload, and to load the carts
again with our own goods; the lazy
4 Indians. who came down with them,
1 squatting on their hams. looking on,
] doing nothing. and when. we asked
them to help Us, only shaking their
t heads or drawing out no quiero.'
Having loaded our carts. we started
up the Indians, who went off, one on
each side of the oxen. with long sticks
. sharpened at the end to punch them
with. This is one Of the means. of saw
ing labor in Cahfornia-two Indians 10
, two oxen.
Now the hides were to be got down,
and for this purpose we brought the
/ boat around TO a place where the hill
I was sleeper and threw them off, let
( ting them. slide over the slope Many
OF them logged, and we had to let our
/ selves down and set them going again
and in this way we became covered
]
we had the hides all down we were
/ obliged to take them on our heads and
! walk over the stones and through the
water to the boat The water and the
J stones together would wear out a pair
/ of shoes a day. and as shoes were very
/ scarce and very dear we were com
PEELED to go barefoOted.
AT night We went on board, having
had the hardest and most disagreeable
days work we had yet experienced
J For several days we were employed IN
/ this manner until we had landed fSfty
or fifty tons of goods and brought back
: on board about 1000 hides. when the
/ trade began TO slacken. On Thursday
( night there was a violent blow from
/ the northward. but as this was on
! shore we had only to let go our Other
/ anchor and hold on"
Dana's Next Visit.
Tweutv-four years later. in 1859.
/ Dana visited San Pedro again, and
( i'm his postscript 90 Two Years
I Before the Mast he says of the -
changed conditions. ~
I could scarce recognize 49,
/ the hill UP which we rolled ~
and dragged and pushed ~
our heavy loads It was ~
no longer the landing a.
place. one had been d"