Excerpt from History of California Three Routes to California Pacific Mail Steamship Company Organized Crossing the Isthmus of Panama Cholera on the Isthmus The California at Panama. Arrival at San Francisco. Crew Deserts to the Mines Passengers by the California and the Oregon Passengers by the Panama. Voyage of the Ship Dolphin. Old Sailing Vessels. Voyage Around Cape Horn Abandoned Ships in San Francisco Harbor Building the Panama Railroad. The Camino del Diablo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.