Illustrated Historical Sketches of California: Including General References to Its Discovery, Early Missions, Revolutions, and Settlement by the United States; Together with a More Ample History of Sacramento Valley and City, and Biographical References to Prominent Individuals |
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Page 33 - We have now a territorial extent nearly ten times as large as that of Great Britain and France combined ; three times as large as the whole of France, Britain, Austria, Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark together ; one and a half times as large as the Russian empire in Europe ; about one-sixth less than the area of all...
Page 19 - ... being disposed in the best manner possible, the image of our Lady of Loreto, the Patroness of the Conquest, was brought in procession from the ship and placed with proper solemnity. On the 25th. formal possession was taken of the country in the name of the king of Spain and the Indies. Before proceeding further with the history of these true soldiers of the cross, and the minute but not uninteresting warfare which they maintained for so many years against the rude natives of California and its...
Page 24 - He was equally laborious in the other tasks, sometimes felling the trees with his axe, sometimes with his spade in his hand digging up the earth, sometimes with an iron crow splitting rocks, sometimes disposing the water-trenches, sometimes leading the beasts and cattle, which he had procured for his mission, to pasture and water; thus by his own example, teaching the several kinds of labor. The Indians, whose narrow ideas and dullness could not at first enter into the utility of these fatigues,...
Page 24 - Father work harder than any of them : so that he was the first in fetching stones, treading the clay, mixing the sand, cutting, carrying and barking the timber, removing the earth and fixing materials.
Page 24 - ... good Father's diurnal labours and general mode of proceeding with the Indians, and also the speedy results, is taken from Venegas and is at once picturesque and affecting. " In the morning after saying mass, and at which he obliged them to attend with order and respect, he gave a breakfast of pozoli to those who were to work, set them about building the church and houses for himself and his Indians, clearing the ground for cultivation, making trenches for the conveyance of water, holes for planting...
Page 25 - In the evening, the father led them a second time to their devotions, in which the rosary was prayed over and the catechism explained, and the service was followed by the distribution of some provisions. At first, they were very troublesome all the time of the sermon, jesting and sneering at what he said. This the father bore with for a while, and then proceeded to reprove them ; but, finding they were not to be kept in order, he made a very dangerous experiment of what could be done by fear. Near...
Page 24 - ... roving among the forests, on a thousand occasions sufficiently tried his patience — coming late, not caring to stir, running away, jeering him, and sometimes even forming combinations, and threatening death and destruction ; all this was to be borne with unwearied patience, having no other recourse than affability and kindness, sometimes intermixed with gravity to strike respect ; also taking care not to tire them, and suit himself to their weakness. In the evening the father led them a second...
Page 21 - And nothing can show more strongly the pure and disinterested motives of the Jesuits than the law which they obtained, after much trouble, from the Mexican government, viz. that all the inhabitants of California, including the soldiers, sailors, and others under their command, should be prohibited not only from diving for pearls but from trafficking in them.
Page 16 - And so indeed it was by the means made use of by men; but not by those which God had chosen. Arms and power were the means on which man relied for the success of this enterprise; but it was the will of heaven that this triumph should be owing to the meekness and courtesy of his ministers, to the humiliation of the cross and the power of his word. God seemed only to wait till human nature acknowledged its weakness, to display the strength of His almighty arm, confounding the pride of the world by...
Page 21 - Fathers, and even threatened the loss of their conquest; but it was, nevertheless, rigidly enforced by them during the whole period of their rule. Fishing for pearls was not, indeed, prohibited in the Gulf, and along the shores of California, but it was carried on by divers brought from the opposite shores by the adventurers engaged in it.