Land of Sunshine, Томи 5 – 6

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F. A. Pattee & Company, 1896
Includes reports, etc., of the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institutes of America.
 

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Сторінка 65 - ... Gold placers are now being worked from Fort Tejon to San Bernardino. Rich deposits have been discovered in the northern part of the county. The San Gabriel mines have been worked very successfully this season. The Santa Anita placers are giving forth their golden harvest. Miners are at work in the San Fernando hills rolling out the gold, and in the hills beyond discoveries have been made which prove the whole district to be one grand placer.
Сторінка 63 - ... and about midday they stopped under some trees and tied their horses out to feed, they resting under the shade, when Lopez, with...
Сторінка 36 - ... speaking, has nothing to do with the cure of diseases. It is true that persons suffering with contagious or infectious diseases are removed to the Municipal hospital. They are there given the best medical treatment. The entire institution is under the direction of Dr. William M. Welsh, a physician who has devoted the best years of his life to the study and treatment of those deadly diseases which are a scourge to the human family, and who, I may safely say, is without a superior in the knowledge...
Сторінка 178 - The voice that beautifies the land! The voice above, The voice of the thunder Within the dark cloud Again and again it sounds, The voice that beautifies the land! The voice that beautifies the land!
Сторінка 65 - During the past eighteen years, Messrs. Ducommon and Jones, merchants of Los Angeles, have purchased in one way and another over two million dollars' worth of gold dust taken from the placer claims of the San Gabriel River, while it is fair to presume that among other merchants and to parties in San Francisco has been distributed at least a like amount.
Сторінка 175 - ... ceremonials might vie in allegory, symbolism, and intricacy of ritual with the ceremonies of any people, ancient or modern. He found, erelong, that these heathens, pronounced godless and legendless, possessed lengthy myths and traditions — so numerous that one can never hope to collect them all, a pantheon as well stocked with gods and heroes as that of the ancient Greeks, and prayers which, for length and vain repetition, might put a Pharisee to the blush.
Сторінка 175 - ... harvest home. They have building songs which celebrate every act in the structure of the hut from "thinking about it " to moving into it and lighting the first fire. They have songs for hunting, for war, for gambling, in short, for every important occasion in life from birth to death, not to speak of pre-natal and post-obit songs.
Сторінка 105 - King, passed by here returning from the pueblos of Zuni on the 29th of July of the year 1629.
Сторінка 97 - No mate has that specter, in fur or feather; In the sage bush is whelped a fuzzy thing, And mischief itself helps lick him together. Up, cub Coyote! " The winds come blowing over and over, The great white moon is looking down; In the throat of the dog is devil's laughter. Is he baying the moon or baying the town? Howl, howl, Coyote! " The shadow-dog on the windy mesa, He sits, and he laughs in his devil's way. Look to the roost and lock up the lambkin; A deal may happen 'twixt now and the day. Ha,...
Сторінка 46 - Now and then the women visit one another ; and when they are met together, there is such a clattering of tongues one would almost think they were American women.

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