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of Whiskey which was handed to him by bloated looking toper
when he crossed his right leg over his left an [and] commenced
smoking his cigar also the ardurous [arduous] task of watching the
Ballot Box now I have given you a description of Election
which I think will amuse you. I will give you a [an] amusing
incident or rather accident that occurred to me. I started
to go to placerville Placerville on Friday Dec 2d a distance from
here about thirty Eight miles over a more mountainous
country than you ever beheld. the first mountain I
had to climb was from one mile And a half to two
miles in height and so steep that a person cannot
go straight up but has to wind round the mountain
several times before he gets to the top. I got
into Georgetown about noon took dinner and started
for Culloma Coloma a distance of ten miles by the waggon [wagon]
road but unfortunately we were informed that by taking
a left hand trail we could cut off two or three miles
of the journey. we accordingly took into the mountains
at this point and after traveling six miles we
arrived at peru Peru, California where we were informed we were
farther from Culloma [Coloma] than we were when we were at
Georgetown. now this was vexatious for as when we left
Georgetown it commenced raining in torrents
and when we arrived at Peru we thorouly [thoroughly] wet through.
my partner wished to stop at Peru that night but as
we started for Colloma [Coloma] I determined to get there that night
rain or shine so we started from Peru about one hour
before dark and about dark we got back on the main
road about one mile from where we left it and