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Ch. 6: Isthmus and Mexico

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"When a couple of Chinese dis­pute over the right to a claim, the noise and gesticulations are frightful..." So one of the Forty-Niners remarked, and the picture at the right illustrates the ges­tures if not the noise.
Chinese Camp (below) was the scene of the labors of almost five thousand industrious Celestials.
Native Americans in the southern mining districts vented their spleen early on Mexicans and Frenchmen who attempted to stake out claims. But after about the middle of 1851, the Chinese came in for their share of oppression, claim-jumping and abuse.
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