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Ch. 12: A Night's Hunt on the Prairies

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There WAS NO possible way of loading this new burden on our poor, overloaded horse, he was carrying everything he was able to carry. But off in the distance was seen a carreta bound from Santa Rosa to Sonoma.* This belonged to one of the rancheros. Finally a bargain was struck with him whereby for two piastres he was allow us to load our game in his carreta and would himself aid us in its transpor­tation.
That evening he was returning to Santa Rosa and so would bring back our horse whose pack, upon arriving in Sonoma, would be placed on the boat. Aluna now set off along the route where he expected to find good hunting. Accompanied by Tillier we continued on our journey. By one o'clock that same afternoon we were in Sonoma. As our boat was lying upon the bank, with the aid of some citizens of Sonoma we transferred our game aboard her. Fortunately the wind was from the north-east and so ideal for carrying us across the bay. Having hoisted sail, within three hours we reached San Francisco. As it was now four o'clock in the afternoon I rushed over to the leading butcher, leaving Tillier to guard our game which was protected with leaves and grass.
* The carreta, a wooden cart drawn by oxen, was used to transport produce in California.
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