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Title: Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
Subjects: Joint Boundary Commission (United States and Mexico) Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton & Company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ut thegold, it would sooner or later have become what it nowis, from its agricultural resources and great commercialadvantages. Sebastian Viscaino having been employed as earlyas the year 1594 in the pacification and conquest ofCalifornia, was selected as the head of an expeditionfitted out for further explorations and colonization in1602. After touching at various places in Lower Cali-fornia, it reached the Coronados Islands. To thenorth of these islands, says the narrative, on themain land, is the famous harbor called San Diego,which the squadron entered at seven in the evening,on the 10th of December; and the day following,the general ordered several persons to survey a forestlying on the north-west side of the bay. This expedi-tion was undertaken by Ensign Alarcon, Captain Pe-guero, Father Antonio de la Ascension, and eightsoldiers. In this forest they found tall and straightoaks and other trees, some shrubs resembling rosemary,and a great variety of fragrant and wholesome plants.
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TO SAN DIEGO. 99 The high grounds commanded a view of the wholeharbor, which appeared spacious, convenient, and wellsheltered. The forest borders on the harbor, towardsthe north-west, and is about three leagues in length, andhalf a league in breadth. And to the north-west of thewood is another harbor. On their return with theirreport to the general, he ordered a tent to be pitchedfor religious worship, and that the ships should becleaned and tallowed, the people in the mean timebeing employed in wooding and keeping guard. Theyhad their water from a little island of sand, where theydug deep trenches, in which, during the flood, thewater was fresh and good, but on the ebb salt. Oneday a sentinel placed in the wood gave notice that hesaw a great number of Indians coming along the shore,naked, and their skins daubed with black and whitecolors, and armed with bows and arrows. On this thegeneral desired Father Antonio to go and offer thempeace. He was attended by Ensign Juan Franciscoand si

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