INCIDENTS ON LAND AND WATER, OR Four Years on the Pacific Coast.

BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE BURNING OF THE SHIPS NONANTUM, HUMAYOON AND FANCHON, TOGETHER WITH MANY STARTLING AND INTERESTING ADVENTURES ON SEA AND LAND. BY MRS. D. B. BATES. EIGHTH EDITION. BOSTON. PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR. 1860. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by MRS. D. B. BATES, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts TO MY MOTHER, WHOSE CHERISHED MEMORY, WHILE WANDERING FAR FROM YOUTHFUL SCENES HAS OFTEN PROVED A TALISMAN IN THE HOUR OF NEED; THE RECOLLECTION OF WHOSE DISINTERESTED LOVE, HAS GIVEN ME COURAGE TO MEET AND BRAVE SEVEREST TRIALS; THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.