... the awakening hum of men, and the glancing of the first beams upon trees, hills, spires, and house tops, to give it life and spirit. But though the... ...ched; a piece of the sandal wood I obtained, and learned that it grew on the hills in the centre of the island. - 22 - Two Years Before the Mast Richa... ...streams running through every valley, and leaping down from the sides of the hills. One stream of considerable size flows through the centre of the l... ...theaster; the other is high, bold, and well wooded, and, we were told, has a mission upon it, called St. Buenaventura, from which the point is named.... ... middle of this crescent, directly opposite the anchoring ground, lie the mission and town of Santa Barbara, on a low, flat plain, but little above... ... mountains, which slant off to the distance of fifteen or twenty miles. The mission stands a little back of the town, and is a large building, or ra... ... before going down to the beach. Several people were soon collected to see ‘‘los Ingles marineros,’’ and one of them—a young woman—took a great fancy ... ...ement of the bystanders, who cried out, ‘‘Bravo!’’ ‘‘Otra vez!’’ and ‘‘Vivan los marineros!’’ but the dancing did not become general, as the women and... ...ego, including the mission of the same, San Juan Capestrano, the Pueblo de los Angelos, the largest town in California, with the neighboring missi...