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Title: Greater Britain: a record of travel in English-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir, 1843-1911
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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VIEW ON THE AMERICAN RIVER—THE PLACE WHERE GOLD WAS FIRST FOUND. El Dorado. 159 gangs of Indians working by proxy upon the continental rail-road. The Indians plan for living happily is a simple one:he sits and smokes in silence while his women work, and hethus lives upon the earnings of the squaws. Unlike a Mor-mon patriarch, he contrives that polygamy shall pay, and sayswith the New Zealand Maori, A man with one wife maystarve, but a man with many wives grows fat. These fel-lows were Shoshones from the other side of the Plateau; forthe Pacific Indians, who are black, not red, will not even forcetheir wives to work, which, in the opinion of the Western men,is the ultimate form of degradation in a race. Higher up thehills Chinamen alone are employed; but their labor is toocostly to be thrown away upon the easier work. In El Dorado City we staid not long enough for the ex-ploration of the once famous surface gold mines, now formingone long vineyard, but, rolling on, were soon among th

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