Meiggs fell all the lumber-dealers, and many persons dealing in
city scrip. Compared with others, our loss was a trifle. In a
short time things in San Francisco resumed their wonted course,
and we generally laughed at the escapade of Meiggs, and the
cursing of his deluded creditors.

Shortly after our arrival in San Francisco, I rented of a Mr.
Marryat, son of the English Captain Marryat, the author, a small
frame-house on Stockton Street, near Green, buying of him his
furniture, and we removed to it about December 1, 1853. Close
by, around on Green Street, a man named Dickey was building
two small brick-houses, on ground which he had leased of Nich-
olson. I bought one of these houses, subject to the ground-rent,
and moved into it as soon as finished. Lieutenant T. H. Ste-
vens, of the United States Navy, with his family, rented the
other; we lived in this house throughout the year 1854, and
up to April 17, 1855.

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