Diary_Journal_of_a_Passenger_0048

and at last took fits they were
obliged to make him fast by
two chains and after recovering
the first fir he appeared very
strange in his appearance
and he commenced leiting every
thing [everything] and they considered him
consequently Mad and Killed
him on the prearie [prairie]. Some
large vessells [vessels] come up the
river as far as Sacramento
City but then they are doomed
to lay. There is many reports
here about gold finding but
every man has to prove the
whole by personal escperience [experience]
here. We are encamped in