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"
Many
clam-shells
showed
me
why
these
humans
had
come
to
the
shores
of
the
Bay
.
This
was
the
Santa
Rosa
Tribe
,
and
I
followed
its
track
along
the
old
railroad
right
of
way
across
the
salt
marshes
to
Sonoma
Valley
.
Here
,
at
the
old
brickyard
at
Glen
Ellen
,
I
came
upon
the
camp
.
There
were
eighteen
souls
all
told
.
Two
were
old
men
,
one
of
whom
was
Jones
,
a
banker
.
The
other
was
Harrison
,
a
retired
pawnbroker
,
who
had
taken
for
wife
the
matron
of
the
State
Hospital
for
the
Insane
at
Napa
.
Of
all
the
persons
of
the
city
of
Napa
,
and
of
all
the
other
towns
and
villages
in
that
rich
and
populous
valley
,
she
had
been
the
only-survivor
.
Next
,
there
were
the
three
young
men
--
Cardiff
and
Hale
,
who
had
been
farmers
,
and
Wainwright
,
a
common
day-laborer
.
All
three
had
found
wives
.
To
Hale
,
a
crude
,
illiterate
farmer
,
had
fallen
Isadore
,
the
greatest
prize
,
next
to
Vesta
,
of
the
women
who
came
through
the
plague
.
She
was
one
of
the
world
's
most
noted
singers
,
and
the
plague
had
caught
her
at
San
Francisco
.
She
has
talked
with
me
for
hours
at
a
time
,
telling
me
of
her
adventures
,
until
,
at
last
,
rescued
by
Hale
in
the
Mendocino
Forest
Reserve
,
there
had
remained
nothing
for
her
to
do
but
become
his
wife
.
But
Hale
was
a
good
fellow
,
in
spite
of
his
illiteracy
.
He
had
a
keen
sense
of
justice
and
right-dealing
,
and
she
was
far
happier
with
him
than
was
Vesta
with
the
Chauffeur
.
"
The
wives
of
Cardiff
and
Wainwright
were
ordinary
women
,
accustomed
to
toil
with
strong
constitutions
--
just
the
type
for
the
wild
new
life
which
they
were
compelled
to
live
.
In
addition
were
two
adult
idiots
from
the
feeble-minded
home
at
El-dredge
,
and
five
or
six
young
children
and
infants
born
after
the
formation
of
the
Santa
Rosa
Tribe
.
Also
,
there
was
Bertha
.
She
was
a
good
woman
,
Hare-Lip
,
in
spite
of
the
sneers
of
your
father
.
Her
I
took
for
wife
.
She
was
the
mother
of
your
father
,
Edwin
,
and
of
yours
,
Hoo-Hoo
.
And
it
was
our
daughter
,
Vera
,
who
married
your
father
,
Hare-Lip
--
your
father
,
Sandow
,
who
was
the
oldest
son
of
Vesta
Van
Warden
and
the
Chauffeur
.
"
And
so
it
was
that
I
became
the
nineteenth
member
of
the
Santa
Rosa
Tribe
.
There
were
only
two
outsiders
added
after
me
.
One
was
Mungerson
,
descended
from
the
Magnates
,
who
wandered
alone
in
the
wilds
of
Northern
California
for
eight
years
before
he
came
south
and
joined
us
.
He
it
was
who
waited
twelve
years
more
before
he
married
my
daughter
,
Mary
.
The
other
was
Johnson
,
the
man
who
founded
the
Utah
Tribe
.
That
was
where
he
came
from
,
Utah
,
a
country
that
lies
very
far
away
from
here
,
across
the
great
deserts
,
to
the
east
.
It
was
not
until
twenty-seven
years
after
the
plague
that
Johnson
reached
California
.
In
all
that
Utah
region
he
reported
but
three
survivors
,
himself
one
,
and
all
men
.
For
many
years
these
three
men
lived
and
hunted
together
,
until
,
at
last
,
desperate
,
fearing
that
with
them
the
human
race
would
perish
utterly
from
the
planet
,
they
headed
westward
on
the
possibility
of
finding
women
survivors
in
California
.
Johnson
alone
came
through
the
great
desert
,
where
his
two
companions
died
.
He
was
forty-six
years
old
when
he
joined
us
,
and
he
married
the
fourth
daughter
of
Isadore
and
Hale
,
and
his
eldest
son
married
your
aunt
,
Hare-Lip
,
who
was
the
third
daughter
of
Vesta
and
the
Chauffeur
.
Johnson
was
a
strong
man
,
with
a
will
of
his
own
.
And
it
was
because
of
this
that
he
seceded
from
the
Santa
Rosans
and
formed
the
Utah
Tribe
at
San
José
.
It
is
a
small
tribe
--
there
are
only
nine
in
it
;
but
,
though
he
is
dead
,
such
was
his
influence
and
the
strength
of
his
breed
,
that
it
will
grow
into
a
strong
tribe
and
play
a
leading
part
in
the
recivilization
of
the
planet
.
"
There
are
only
two
other
tribes
that
we
know
of
--
the
Los
Angelitos
and
the
Carmelitos
.
The
latter
started
from
one
man
and
woman
.
He
was
called
Lopez
,
and
he
was
descended
from
the
ancient
Mexicans
and
was
very
black
.
He
was
a
cowherd
in
the
ranges
beyond
Carmel
,
and
his
wife
was
a
maidservant
in
the
great
Del
Monte
Hotel
.
It
was
seven
years
before
we
first
got
in
touch
with
the
Los
Ange-litos
.
They
have
a
good
country
down
there
,
but
it
is
too
warm
.
I
estimate
the
present
population
of
the
world
at
between
three
hundred
and
fifty
and
four
hundred
--
provided
,
of
course
,
that
there
are
no
scattered
little
tribes
elsewhere
in
the
world
.
If
there
be
such
,
we
have
not
heard
from
them
.
Since
Johnson
crossed
the
desert
from
Utah
,
no
word
nor
sign
has
come
from
the
East
or
anywhere
else
.
The
great
world
which
I
knew
in
my
boyhood
and
early
manhood
is
gone
.
It
has
ceased
to
be
.
I
am
the
last
man
who
was
alive
in
the
days
of
the
plague
and
who
knows
the
wonders
of
that
far-off
time
.
We
,
who
mastered
the
planet
--
its
earth
,
and
sea
,
and
sky
--
and
who
were
as
very
gods
,
now
live
in
primitive
savagery
along
the
water
courses
of
this
California
country
.
"
But
we
are
increasing
rapidly
--
your
sister
,
Hare-Lip
,
already
has
four
children
.
We
are
increasing
rapidly
and
making
ready
for
a
new
climb
toward
civilization
.
In
time
,
pressure
of
population
will
compel
us
to
spread
out
,
and
a
hundred
generations
from
now
we
may
expect
our
descendants
to
start
across
the
Sierras
,
oozing
slowly
along
,
generation
by
generation
,
over
the
great
continent
to
the
colonization
of
the
East
--
a
new
Aryan
drift
around
the
world
.
"
But
it
will
be
slow
,
very
slow
;
we
have
so
far
to
climb
.
We
fell
so
hopelessly
far
.
If
only
one
physicist
or
one
chemist
had
survived
!
But
it
was
not
to
be
,
and
we
have
forgotten
everything
.
The
Chauffeur
started
working
in
iron
.
He
made
the
forge
which
we
use
to
this
day
.
But
he
was
a
lazy
man
,
and
when
he
died
he
took
with
him
all
he
knew
of
metals
and
machinery
.
What
was
I
to
know
of
such
things
?
I
was
a
classical
scholar
,
not
a
chemist
.
.
The
other
men
who
survived
were
not
educated
.
Only
two
things
did
the
Chauffeur
accomplish
--
the
brewing
of
strong
drink
and
the
growing
of
tobacco
.
It
was
while
he
was
drunk
,
once
,
that
he
killed
Vesta
.
I
firmly
believe
that
he
killed
Vesta
in
a
fit
of
drunken
cruelty
though
he
always
maintained
that
she
fell
into
the
lake
and
was
drowned
.
"
And
,
my
grandsons
,
let
me
warn
you
against
the
medicine-men
.
They
call
themselves
doctors
,
travestying
what
was
once
a
noble
profession
,
but
in
reality
they
are
medicine-men
,
devil-devil
men
,
and
they
make
for
superstition
and
darkness
.
They
are
cheats
and
liars
.
But
so
debased
and
degraded
are
we
,
that
we
believe
their
lies
.
They
,
too
,
will
increase
in
numbers
as
we
increase
,
and
they
will
strive
to
rule
us
.
Yet
are
they
liars
and
charlatans
.
Look
at
young
Cross-Eyes
,
posing
as
a
doctor
,
selling
charms
against
sickness
,
giving
good
hunting
,
exchanging
promises
of
fair
weather
for
good
meat
and
skins
,
sending
the
death-stick
,
performing
a
thousand
abominations
.
Yet
I
say
to
you
,
that
when
he
says
he
can
do
these
things
,
he
lies
.
I
,
Professor
Smith
,
Professor
James
Howard
Smith
,
say
that
he
lies
.
I
have
told
him
so
to
his
teeth
.
