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138 rival, Hartnell; yet he seems to have done this year and the next a larger business than any other trader.

An interesting circumstance connected with the Brookline's visit was the raising of an American flag at San Diego, noticed in the newspapers on the authority of Captain James P. Arther. He had visited California before in the Harbinger, was mate of the Brookline, and, like George W. Greene, one of his companions, was still living in Massachusetts in 1872. "Arthur and his little party were sent ashore at San Diego to cure hides. They had a barn-like structure of wood, provided by the ship's carpenter, which answered the purposes of storehouse, curing-shop, and residence. The life was lonesome enough. Upon the wide expanse of the Pacific they occasionally discerned a distant ship. Sometimes a vessel sailed near the lower offing. It was thus that the idea of preparing and raising a flag, for the purpose of attracting attention, occurred to them. The flag was manufactured from some shirts, and Captain Arthur writes, with the just accuracy of a historian, that Mr Greene's calico shirt furnished the blue, while he furnished the red and white. 'It was completed and