morning about eleven o'clock
`` You are a pickpocket of the right sort , '' said his companion . `` You took my money in order to save it . '' Their money recovered , they started on their day 's march , and nightfall found them twenty miles nearer their destination . One morning about eleven o'clock they came in sight of Murphy 's . It was only a mining-settlement of the most primitive description . A few tents and cabins , with rough , bearded men scattered here and there , intent upon working their claims , gave it a picturesque appearance , which it has lost now . It was then a more important place than at present , however , for the surface diggings are exhausted , and it is best known-to-day by its vicinity to the famous Calaveras grove of big trees .