Part V: To my dear aunt, Marie-Colombe Arulith de Massey, née Barthelemy. In memory of my uncle, Alexandre Frederick Auguste de Massey, whose memory I shall always cherish in consideration of his constant affection for me, I am sending you, without any preamble, this account of my trip to the placers of Trinity River, the most picturesque and most checkered, though perhaps the saddest and most unpleasant part of my adventures. Scylla and Charybdis Savages, Mines, and Misery
(1850); in A Frenchman in the Gold Rush: The Journal of Ernest de Massey, Argonaut of 1849 (San Francisco, CA: California Historical Society, 1927), 46-131