In the Footprints of the Padres

they were not a few. The markets of California, in early times, were stocked with canned goods. Flour came to us in large cans; probably the barrel would not have been proof against mould during the long voyage around the Horn. Everything eatable--I had almost said and drinkable--we had in cans; and these cans when emptied were cast into the rubbish heap and finally consigned to the dump-cart.