Summer Suns in the Far West a Holiday Trip to the Pacific Slope
Summer Suns in the Far West a Holiday Trip to the Pacific Slope
Blaikie, William Garden, 1820-1899
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The natives came to profess Christianity of a sort, but re- mained little civilized. The fathers introduced good breeds of sheep, oxen, and horses on the hills, and near the villages the grape and other fruit trees; and to this day a kind of grape, excellent for wine but not for raisins, is called the mission-grape. Of late years, however, a strange blight has fallen upon the whole of this species, and it looks as if it would be exterminated. Then came the time, early in this century, when Mexi...co revolted from Spain and set up for itself. California was in turn a department of the Mexican empire and a province in the Mexican republic. And during this period the Mexi- can Government came down heavily on the missions. These missions had got possession of large and valuable lands. The Mexican Government secularized a great part of Ihem. The missions were reduced to comparative poverty, and now they are insignificant factors in the history of the country. Now, also, although there are some families of pure Spanish blood, the Spaniards and the aborigines have got mixed together.
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