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Identifier: californiaalaska00webbrich (find matches)
Title: California and Alaska, and over the Canadian Pacific railway
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Webb, William Seward, 1851-1926
Subjects: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company California Central Railroad Union Pacific railroad company Canadian Pacific Railway Company California -- Description and travel Pacific Coast -- Description and travel Alaska -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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departments,are perfect in their way. It is certainly oneof the most complete bathing establishments inthe country. Those who have read Danas Two Yearsbefore the Mast will remember that he speaksof visiting Monterey, at a time when its lifemust have been very picturesque. He speaksof the pride people took in tracing back theirancestry to the Spaniards, saying that theleast drop of Spanish blood was held to besufficient to raise them from the rank of slavesand entitle them to a suit of clothes, boots,hat, cloak, spurs, long knife, and all complete,however coarse and dirty they might be. Thenative women were excessively fond of dress,and nothinor was more common than to see awoman living in a house of only two rooms, andthe ground for a floor, dressed in spangled satinshoes, silk gown, high comb, and gilt, if noteold, earrings and necklace. He was struckwith the fineness of the voices and beauty ofthe intonations of both sexes. Common-look-ing ruffians, with slouched hat, blanket cloak.
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<z •J Monterey. 59 dirty under-dress, and soiled leather leggings,appeared to speak pure and elegant Spanish.A common bullock driver, on horseback deliv-ering a message, seemed to speak like anambassador at an audience; in fact theyseemed to be a people on whom a curse hadfallen, which had stripped them of every thingbut their pride, their manners, and theirvoices. The town was under Mexican rule at thistime, its chief officer being a governor-general,appointed by the central government at Mex-ico ; then there was a commandant, and twoor three alcaldes and corregidores, who werecivil officers, elected by the inhabitants. Danatells us that the houses at that time were ofone story, built of clay made into large bricks,about a foot and a half square, three or fourinches thick, and hardened in the sun. Thesewere cemented together by mortar of the samematerial, the whole being of a common dirtcolor. The floors were generally of earth, thewindows grated and without glass, and thedoors

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