Explore "The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, and Western Texas" by Frederick Marryat on Textopian.
I was very young then -- - not thirteen years old; but if I was young, I had travelled much, and had gained that knowledge which is to be obtained by the eye -- perhaps the best education we can have in our earlier years. I shall pass over the monotony of the voyage of eternal sky and water. I have no recollection that we were in any imminent danger at any time, and the voyage might have been styled a prosperous one.
After five months we arrived off the coast, and with some difficulty we gained the entrance of a river falling into Trinity Bay, in lat. 41 deg. north and long. 124 deg. 28' west.