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Title: Travels in Europe and America
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles E(dward), 1841-1901. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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les wide and seven long thatconnects the Bay with the Pacific Ocean. The Gol-den Gate sunsets are famous. In 1768 Father Junipero Serra, with eleven com-panions, all Franciscan Priests, came from Mexicoto continue missionary labor among the Indiansalong the coast of California, a work which the self-sacrificing Jesuits had carried on since 1601, for150 years. The bells of Catholic Mexico rang outa peal of triumph when news reached the capitalthat the Franciscans had met with success. Thedivine mysteries of faith were first celebrated onrustic altars beneath the grateful shade of live oaks.Soon houses and chapels were built for missionaries,and barracks for soldiers, the whole encircled bypalisades. A new station founded, the enthusiastic Serrahung aloft and rang out his mission bells, andcalled to natives of plain and valley to sit beneaththe cross of peace. Thus were planted the missionsof San Diego, Mt. Carmel, Santa Clara, San Gabriel,San Rafael, San Luis Rey and others. With azure
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MISSION GARDEN, SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA. 77?^ VELS. 377 banners of the Blessed Virgin unfurled, these intre-pid missionaries, trusting their God, planted thecross at the foot of many a Sierra on fertile plains,or near hostile Indian villages. Venerable Serradied in 1784 eager to the last to plant more mis-sions. Ten thousand Indians were baptized. Tribes on the Pacific Slope varied in languageand race ; they went naked, or wore an apron offringe or a cloak of skins. For sustenance theyrelied on fishing and hunting, or seeds and herbs.Their canoes were well made, and shells served formoney. They believed in witchcraft, medicine-men,jugglery, and indulged in various dances. The mis-sionaries often were stripped, and slain by arrowsand wooden swords. Later California missions,which began about the period of the AmericanRevolution, attained a wonderful degree of prosper-ity. Some of the buildings were 250 feet square;in one end were church and parsonage. The inter-ior galleries faced a

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