Stormy and dreary the ship casts off then lies at anchor just at the harbor entrance. The seas are to high to proceed. "We would have shone at a wake, but not at anything more festive."

Mr. Blucher's opinion was first published in the Daily Alta California June 30, 1867 but written May 19th.

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