Excerpt from Ben's Nugget, or a Boy's Search for Fortune: A Story of the Pacific Coast Ben's N ugget is the concluding volume of the Pacific Series. Though it is complete in itself, and may be read independently, the chief characters introduced Will be recognized as Old friends by the readers of The Young Explorer, the Volume just preceding, not omitting Ki Sing, the faithful Chinaman, Whose Virtues may go far to diminish the prej udiec Which, justly or unjustly, is i10w felt to ward his countrymen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.