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She sailed on the 15th of April with no less than six- ty-eight persons, among whom were some who in lat- ter years acquired more or less distinction in California. In the course of the voyage they underwent much suffering, scarcity of water contributing thereto. A number of the company, driven to desperation, landed in Lower California, and made their way north on foot. Reaching Kosario with the greatest difficulty, they sighted two vessels, one the Dolphin and the other an Italian bark. The latter took some of the schooner's passengers away with her, and a few of the land party returned to their own old craft, the rest preferring to continue their journey up the coast. The latter after undergoing many hardships reached San Diego on the 24th of June, As for the Dolphin, she went into San Diego harbor in a sinking condition, and was condemned and sold without more ado. One of her passengers had died on the voyage.
The vicissitudes of a party on board the schooner San Blasena, of thirty -five tons, which sailed from Mazatlan in May of the same year, were in many re- spects the counterpart of those suffered by the Dol- phins people. Some of their number were taken off by another vessel at sea; the rest abandoned the craft on the coast of Lower California, and made their way on foot, carrying their effects on their backs, to Todos Santos, where they procured mules, and on the 24tli of May set out for La Paz. On the journey they suffered greatly for want of provisions and water. Finally, on the 11th of August, they fell in with Emory's surveying party at the initial point of the Mexican boundary line. Meanwhile the Sail Blasena left San Jose del Cabo, and completed her voyage at Monterey, after the manner of the Dolphin, on the 1st of July.
Another of the land journeys up the peninsula was that of J. W. Venable, who came from Kentucky via Panamd in 1849, and was a member of the state as- sembly from Los Angeles in 1873, and who travelled
