White Conquest, Volume 1Chatto and Windus, 1876 |
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Pagina 26
... California was equal to the task of wrestling with this evil . Indians sold their children to Spanish dons and Mexican cabal- leros , just as Georgians and Circassians sold their girls to Greek skippers and Turkish pashas . Even under ...
... California was equal to the task of wrestling with this evil . Indians sold their children to Spanish dons and Mexican cabal- leros , just as Georgians and Circassians sold their girls to Greek skippers and Turkish pashas . Even under ...
Pagina 37
... California , ' he remarks ; ' my biography is the history of California . ' 6 In one sense he is right . Don Mariano's story is that of nearly every Mexican of rank . In olden times ( now thirty years ago ! ) he was the largest holder ...
... California , ' he remarks ; ' my biography is the history of California . ' 6 In one sense he is right . Don Mariano's story is that of nearly every Mexican of rank . In olden times ( now thirty years ago ! ) he was the largest holder ...
Pagina 40
... California , and Solano county , where he chiefly lives , is safer both for property and life than any other part of the Pacific slope . He asks for nothing . Money will not tempt him . No one knows his mind ; perhaps he would like a ...
... California , and Solano county , where he chiefly lives , is safer both for property and life than any other part of the Pacific slope . He asks for nothing . Money will not tempt him . No one knows his mind ; perhaps he would like a ...
Pagina 41
... California built on his estate , he founded a new city on San Pablo Bay , which he called Vallejo , and offered not only to give the State his finest sites , but to defray the cost of building a court - house and laying out a public ...
... California built on his estate , he founded a new city on San Pablo Bay , which he called Vallejo , and offered not only to give the State his finest sites , but to defray the cost of building a court - house and laying out a public ...
Pagina 54
... California gave me the notion of settling here , and I came over with some money and more ex- perience . I stayed in San Francisco five or six weeks , looking round , and feeling for an opening , but the sharpers of that city would have ...
... California gave me the notion of settling here , and I came over with some money and more ex- perience . I stayed in San Francisco five or six weeks , looking round , and feeling for an opening , but the sharpers of that city would have ...
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Pagina 108 - It is the sentence of this court that you be taken from hence back to the county jail of Yoknapatawpha County and there on the thirteenth day of March be hanged by the neck until you are dead. And may God have mercy on your soul.
Pagina 356 - More Worlds than One. The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian.