CaliforniaGrafton Publishing Company, 1911 - 393 strani |
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Stran 7
... ruins of the old Franciscan Missions . Southward wind still the brown trails of the Padres , northward are the hills from which the Argonauts wrung the most stupendous cache of gold that Nature had THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE 7.
... ruins of the old Franciscan Missions . Southward wind still the brown trails of the Padres , northward are the hills from which the Argonauts wrung the most stupendous cache of gold that Nature had THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE 7.
Stran 9
... Padres thrown around them . Against the greatness of today they stand as the sole pitiful , hopeless protest - the one sad blot on an enthralling picture . Through these valleys , beginning with the one called El Cajon , the trail leads ...
... Padres thrown around them . Against the greatness of today they stand as the sole pitiful , hopeless protest - the one sad blot on an enthralling picture . Through these valleys , beginning with the one called El Cajon , the trail leads ...
Stran 11
... Padres saw it a hundred years ago , just as we see it now , and the Indians told the first white man that their fathers and their fathers ' fathers had climbed to its great shadows to drink and bathe in the healing waters that still ...
... Padres saw it a hundred years ago , just as we see it now , and the Indians told the first white man that their fathers and their fathers ' fathers had climbed to its great shadows to drink and bathe in the healing waters that still ...
Stran 41
... padres also give us entertaining descriptions of the Indians . From all these sources it is quite easy to get a clear picture of these primitive people . Sir Francis Drake has described the Indians he met when he was camped under Point ...
... padres also give us entertaining descriptions of the Indians . From all these sources it is quite easy to get a clear picture of these primitive people . Sir Francis Drake has described the Indians he met when he was camped under Point ...
Stran 43
... Padres , who desired , of course , to civilize and christianize them . So , a ship was sent to San Nicolas and the tribe was gathered to- gether and put on board . But just before the ship sailed an Indian woman ran back on the island ...
... Padres , who desired , of course , to civilize and christianize them . So , a ship was sent to San Nicolas and the tribe was gathered to- gether and put on board . But just before the ship sailed an Indian woman ran back on the island ...
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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...