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Mounting a naked broad back, we were carried through the surf, dumped into the boat and rowed to the ship. On arriving at the gangway, we were obhged to show our tickets, every species of trickery being resorted to by a certain class on shore to get themselves forward without paying their passage. The passengers then formed themselves into a line before the purser's office window, and when all were on board rooms and berths were allotted.
Thus in this Isthmus transit, we find the history of every man who made it a unique experience, which acted powerully upon the recasting of his character — a fit preparation for the baptism which was to follow his landino- in Californiac
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