French sea captain Auguste Duhaut-Cilly failed in his quest to become wealthy from his around-the-world travels between 1826 and 1829. However, he recorded his impressions of the California coast and the region's natural history and human populations in a diary. This text provides a translation.
A first-hand account of pre-Gold Rush California, written by a French merchant/explorer who traveled through much of Spanish California in the 1820s as part of a round the world voyage.
