http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~sring/DIARY/welcome.html
A Sketch of a three years travel [sic] in South America, California and Mexico (1848-1851) is a WWW site devoted to the writings of Eugene Ring, who kept extensive records throughout his travels to Latin America and California during the gold rush years of the late nineteenth century. The site contains excerpts from the original manuscripts and includes entries on topics such as life at sea, the Strait of Magellan, and the voyage to San Francisco.