CaliforniaGrafton Publishing Company, 1911 - 393 strani |
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Stran 4
... cross . Dædalus was not a myth , but simply a man in advance of his age , as was also " Darius Green in his flying machine . " And so , with California known to all the world as it is known today , we see that the " Land of Heart's ...
... cross . Dædalus was not a myth , but simply a man in advance of his age , as was also " Darius Green in his flying machine . " And so , with California known to all the world as it is known today , we see that the " Land of Heart's ...
Stran 8
... cross , the first church and the first town . It was here , too , that sprang from primeval wastes the first cultivated field , the first palm , and the first vine and olive tree to blossom into fruitage beneath a wooing sun from the ...
... cross , the first church and the first town . It was here , too , that sprang from primeval wastes the first cultivated field , the first palm , and the first vine and olive tree to blossom into fruitage beneath a wooing sun from the ...
Stran 13
... cross erected by reverent and loving hands in memory of Fra Juni- pero Serra , founder of the California Missions . To reach this cross there is a winding road , sinuous as a serpent's trail and broad and smooth as the Appian Way ...
... cross erected by reverent and loving hands in memory of Fra Juni- pero Serra , founder of the California Missions . To reach this cross there is a winding road , sinuous as a serpent's trail and broad and smooth as the Appian Way ...
Stran 21
... deep with roses in each val- ley's heart , brown roadsides hushed with ruined fanes ; and , here and there , a moldered cross upon a haunted hill . TRINIWYORK SLERARY ASTOR , LENOX AND TIL DEN FOUNDATIONS , THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE 21.
... deep with roses in each val- ley's heart , brown roadsides hushed with ruined fanes ; and , here and there , a moldered cross upon a haunted hill . TRINIWYORK SLERARY ASTOR , LENOX AND TIL DEN FOUNDATIONS , THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE 21.
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... cross - examine de Vaca . He was not asked to explain how he managed to wade the swamps and morasses and wend his way through the forests and tramp the great wastes that lie through Louisiana , Alabama and Texas ; or how he got across ...
... cross - examine de Vaca . He was not asked to explain how he managed to wade the swamps and morasses and wend his way through the forests and tramp the great wastes that lie through Louisiana , Alabama and Texas ; or how he got across ...
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American Angeles Antonio Arguello Arrillaga arrived Bear Flag Bear Flag Republic beauty Borica brown-robed Cabrillo Cali Califor called Captain Carmelo Castro Christian church civil coast Comandante command County-Created February 18 dream El Camino Real established Estevanico expedition Fages Father Junipero Felipe de Neve fornia Franciscan Fremont Galvez Gaspar de Portola glory gold golden Governor of California hands harbor hills honor horses hundred Indians islands Juan Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo Junipero Serra Kearney land leagues Mexican Mexico miles military Mission San missionaries Monterey mountain neophytes never original twenty-seven counties Pacific padres party passed Pedro Pico Pious Fund port Portola presidio Province pueblos River sailed San Carlos San Diego San Francisco San Gabriel San Jose Santa Barbara Santa Clara Sebastian Vizcaino ships shores sion soldiers Sonoma Spain Spaniards Spanish Stockton terey tion trail Vallejo Valley Viceroy Vizcaino voyage wandering waters
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Stran 288 - Phew ! " And a long, low whistle blew. " Come, now, really that 's the oddest Talk for one so very modest. You brag of your East ! You do ? Why, I bring the East to you ! All the Orient, all Cathay, Find through me the shortest way ; And the sun you follow here Rises in my hemisphere. Really, — if one must be rude, — Length, my friend, ain't longitude.
Stran 165 - I am a long ways from home, and am anxious to get there as soon as the nature of the case will admit. Our situation is quite unpleasant, being destitute of clothing and most of the necessaries of life, wild meat being our principal subsistence. "I am, reverend father, your strange but real friend and Christian brother, "JS SMITH.
Stran 288 - ... Orient, all Cathay, Find through me the shortest way ; And the sun you follow here Rises in my hemisphere. Really, — if one must be rude, — Length, my friend, ain't longitude." Said the Union, " Don't reflect, or I'll run over some Director." Said the Central, " I'm Pacific ; But, when riled, I'm quite terrific. Yet to-day we shall not quarrel, Just to show these folks this moral, How two Engines — in their vision — • Once have met without collision.
Stran 342 - ... saddle the evening before; nor was there the least doubt that he would have done the whole distance in the same time if he had continued under the saddle. "After a hospitable detention of another half...
Stran 192 - To overthrow a Government which has seized upon the property of the Missions for its individual aggrandizement; which has ruined and shamefully oppressed the laboring people of California by...
Stran 287 - What was it the Engines said, Pilots touching, — head to head Facing on the single track, Half a world behind each back?
Stran 244 - And shall we be capable of permitting ourselves to be subjugated, and to accept in silence the heavy chain of slavery? Shall we lose the soil inherited from our fathers, which cost them so much blood? Shall we leave our families victims of the most barbarous servitude? Shall we wait to see our wives...
Stran 9 - Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
Stran 153 - We came to anchor within two cable lengths of the shore, and the town lay directly before...
Stran 153 - Every common ruffian-looking fellow, with a slouched hat, blanket cloak, dirty under-dress, and soiled leather leggins, appeared to me to be speaking elegant Spanish. It was a pleasure simply to listen to the sound of the language, before I could attach any meaning to it. They have a good deal of the Creole drawl, but it is varied with an occasional extreme rapidity of utterance, in which they seem to skip from consonant to consonant, until, lighting upon a broad open vowel, they rest upon that to...