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Show mm (BpeclHl Corn'spondrnre?) Itad It not been for tho rortitgiteaa aallorn. dnrlng aoa rnvwrt, and for the ' protortlriK fins; of tho Spanish monarch mon-arch s, wonder tvhnra Amorlca would ba on tho mnp todayT Fifty ycara aftor Coltimhus voynno weut. ward another rortugiiptp, Cahrlllo by name, also aalllng, under t ties Hpnnlxh flag, came coast in up those Canlfor-nla Canlfor-nla slinros and nailed Into thla aheltored harbor looking (or wator. lie) found It, and also aoms rather ' ptignarlo in Indlnnt, who, In niodern parlJtirn, "put up a fight." After a iklrinlsh Cahrlllu, o tho old bookt ay, di'd.iri'd pencn, nainod the harbor Ban MIkiiuI, and aallud away north- ward. I Wo next hear th nt hit anllnra ao admired tho flnmlng pr'I'Py bods at the foot of Point lAinin they must have boon very numerous that year to be Ylatlilo from the tea that they ex-claimed ex-claimed In dellirht "f'npa da Florae." To provo It w find Lot Floret Canon . to this duy tradition having clung closor to this namo thnn to that Riven I to Hi o hay further aottth for the next ; explorer who huppenod along liked Bt. Jnniot lienor than dntiKhty Mlrhfii'l, and reohrhdencd tho buy for lilt pr.trnn. fit. Jamet, or Ban IMego. That must havo been about 159ii, but ! this namo aootna to have survived , the blank of over 160 years, for when dear old Fnthcr Jutitpero Berra brmmht his llttlo foren to start on his bolotvd tnlsslon work In 17G'J the ouino Bnn lilotro wns retained. I It wnsn't nil easy work, founding I mission In those days, nor wore the losing fo Um e.,, reported to the lccroy in ls.-, n,n mission had within It, pr,,,i..,H, i,,,,,,,,, ,,. tlon ft l.r..n ,.., ,,., w,i,b lnr'.ii'l.'.! on ., , (f ,,,, , ,any sheep. .J , nr .-.. , , ,,,, ynT hnd pro :,,,-. , ,i bo .Mols of whent and ..t'.'l li i hels ,,t b:i,ley. Not bad I'T oiilv mIiimu twenty years of effort In t'ie ii.i, , .. Bsn !),.. i, n ,,:,.,, t,.tM ,,. lie!""'1 "I ' '. h.n,,ri eMornally llttlo It.iee of p, ,,. ,, TU for It pi,.-. i i,., ( IMrl ,no ;ro "I Hi,. m,.,:,,, al. Tho pi,,,,1(, of )M Town M tl, ,i,m ,ir. pnllty of r i;ii,,r,,. oiKiinied In m3j. In isio iMiiin,,,,, , w,. thrown up, an, tVoo. w,,. I,,,, (letensa of the tnrUr v n, s, Kiorklon onlere.l It it i the f,; -,to Cimgrpat and ci pl;ir. , it... f,,i i .u,,ns. atnre railed Fori i,, Whei ti-:i K.",t-.,.,- mil,, army after their n,,. i of s.ouo nillea acn" tlio d ,. rr.stn Fort l.aon- worth, resr'ip.i II, ih ,,uT-t f t,, coiiniri In-. f,lllr ,,,n,,K tlioy hnd beon tin th.. mv ihoy ,ii,l two on-gaKeinints on-gaKeinints win, i. m, (mo Rt Ban Pasntinl ninl on,, nt the Man Iternnr lo run. h Vh toi lous In both, althouih with loun t,B nttl band of Anierlcms . i (,Kilmire and hnnitry and In nn i ni tny a country. Kit Carson, tho imi.-.l. voliintoorod, with Lleiitoii .tii 11,-nlo of tho navy, to to KO to (inn l)!"Ko, twenty nlno mllos away, and seeuro relief fnira Stockton. Wo can lmai;lua the Joy p-pej.Wie, In the Old Town. of Kearney'! hard pressed little bf 1 when reonforeotuenta cam to from the city. Old Town now Is only a atihnrb of the clt of Ban IMecn, on the buntitlful hurhor of thnt nntiio. A riuuliit. sleepy, old phco. a literary pllrrlmngo to those and Ihero aro ninny who have int'tn of Helen Hunt's "Itntno-na" "Itntno-na" a classic of early Culllornla days for here lived :h? priest. Father fiaiparo, who inr-rried ltumonn and Ah'ssatidm. An the story goes: "Father (innpura'a Imu-io wns at the ond of a lon't row, low adoho build-lug, build-lug, now fnllen Into decay, uud all Its I rv- , ri .sC'.. " jrjraT 'fJ(A0 Indlnna ao peaceable and tractable aa they seom to havo become later. At first tho mission was 'founded within tho Presidio, or fortification, and the tint weeks were onoiiKh to discourage any one but a mout devout and ardent Franciscan psdro. Tha Mexicans were atrlckun with the. pestilence and Futhur Jutitpero wont up and down the beach, curing for thu sick and dy-j dy-j Ing aud burying 11, u dead. In lesa . than a month after landing thcro wua an uprlulng nmong tho Indiana, and I the Bpanhrd had to fW;ht hard for the prl vtlor-e) of making converts In tho wlldurnesn. Alter flrn yeare tho Dilsslon wua removed Inlaud, about , tlx 'miles tip the river, to a beautiful apot comnmn .llni: n view of I ho wholo mission vtilley nnd tho ocean beyond. Even yet tho Imlmiin did not take kindly to the nowconiors. aud planned a surprise sita'li upon -tho now loot-. loot-. tlon. At lent I.Oi n Indians Joined In the attnek and every Inhabitant of Zrr-y- : . ; - Road to the c'd Chapel, the mission wua wounae.1. The mint which the ml'stim pilgrim now gazes upon are on tho site of the mission destroyed In thnt uprising. From 17K4 the niluslon prospered In peace and plenty. Father Junlpero or hit assistants as-sistants had planted an olive orchard, still standing, from which all other olives In tlio titnlo have heon pro n-K:iio,l. n-K:iio,l. "Mon tin y enmo nnd iaen m.iy i i''i." hut this old olive orchard U1 proliahly cudure for couuratloni to J conici, rooms, except thosn occnpld by the rattier, had beon long uninhabited. On the opposite sldo of the way, lu a nr-rli-cted, weedy open, stood his chapel, a poverty stricken llttlo plnee, Its walla Imporfoctly whitewashed decorated with a fow eonriui pleturea and by broken aooneea of liMiklng-glass. liMiklng-glass. rescued In tholr' dilapidated condllkin from the mission hulldliigt now gone utterly to ruin." The old rhapel la hoarded up now, sa the adobe wns crumbling away, and visitors aro admitted only twice a month, when aervlco la bold. Out-sldo Out-sldo niiiT two bells from the old mission with the dnto 1U2 on one of them. Old Town In old with doacrtlon and dprny. A Kpulilsh rnnniiu Ilea neglected on tho common. Tho flrut fraoin bouse In full lorn la Is proudly pointed out, the lomher huvlng been hroui.lit around tlio Horn from Hun-ton. Hun-ton. An old cactus IiciIko, blossoming Just new, hrlnits up the iluvs when this anl others like It weru plunlid as i.il' i-tliiti auulunt thu aloullhy prowling Indian. All li "f tho pnt, telling of dlmtso and r. cl (!. Jmt out there In tho sunshine Is Coronndo, known to a 1 1 the werll lis Hie most lieiiiitlful sea-side sea-side resort IniHKlnablo-and that Ion nrm out thorn airetcuoa down to Old Mullco. |