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...ero no es una obra más, sino un especial trabajo sobre la Patagonia, que tiene por objeto desmitificar una acusación injusta que pretendió deteriorar el nombre del civilizador por antonomasia....

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... Juan José Cresto, 1ª edición, Buenos Aires, Lumiere, 2006. 336 p.;20x14 cm. El Proyecto Sarmiento y Ambas Américas agradecen al autor por permitir... ... tiene por objeto desmitificar una acusación injusta que pretendió deteriorar el nombre del civilizador por antonomasia. En efecto, el autor parte d... ...socialista, escritor e historiador, nos recuerdan aquellas otras de Groussac, el severo francés que se ilustró entre nosotros -para decirlo con pala... ...rta dirigida al general José María Paz, fechada el 22 de diciembre de 1845 en Montevideo 1 , que resume la actividad contra Rosas de los elementos a... ...como Malvinas en otras oportunidades 39 , 40 . No bien el embajador inglés en Montevideo, “furibundo lopista”, logró un ejemplar del tratado, su gob... ... El gobierno chileno, a más de Buenos Aires, accionaba sobre Río de Janeiro y Montevideo mediante protestas contra las operaciones de reaprovisionam... .... Chile and the Balancing of Power in South America, 1830-1905, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1965, p. 91. 9 N. T. Auza, op. cit., p. 1... ... sederías, etcétera. Se ha abierto el tráfico al ferrocarril interoceánico en California que pone en comunicación directa la Europa y Estados Unidos... ...á en demanda, y los cereales producidos en el Pacífico al Sur, con la potente California al Norte, son un pobre elemento de comercio sobre el Perú y...

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...Denmark 64 Djibouti 05 Dominica 66 Dominican Republic 67 Ecuador 69 Egypt 70 El Salvador 72 Equatorial Guinea 74 Ethiopia 75 Falkland Islands (Islas M... ...098,580 km 2 ; land area: 1,084,390 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of California and Texas combined Land boundaries: 6,083 km total Boundary di... ...75,440 km 2 ; land area: 469,440 km 2 Comparative area: slightly larger than California Land boundaries: 4,554 km total Coastline: 402 km Maritime cla... ...; land area: 1,259,200 km 2 Comparative area: slightly larger than Texas and California combined Land boundaries: 5,987 km total Boundary disputes: no... ...ew Republic Movement (MNR), Sergio Erick Ardon; Socialist Party (PS), Alvaro Montero Mejia; People's Party of Costa Rica (PPC), Manuel Mora Valverde; ... ...h runways 2,440-3,659 m, 22 with runways 1,220-2,439 m 71 Egypt (continued) El Salvador Telecommunications: system is large but still inadequate for ... ...bor force; 7% urban labor force (1982) Government Official name: Republic of El Salvador Type: republic Capital: San Salvador Administrative divisions... ...m- proved earth Pipelines: refined products, 10 km Ports: 2 major (Kingston, Montego Bay), 10 minor Civil air: 6 major transport aircraft Airfields: 4... ...15% registration fees and sales of postage stamps; about 4% traceable to the Monte Carlo casino Major industries: chemicals, food process- ing, precis...

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...eloped countries were unable to meet the aid targets as promised under the Monterrey Consensus on Financing for Development (2002). Post-crisis, aid c... ...eisbrot, Rebecca Ray, Jake Johnston, Jose Antonio Cordero and Juan Antonio Montecino, “IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A... ...rsity Press, 1996. Benjamin J Cohen, The Geography of Money, University of California Press, 1998. Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, “Good-bye Financial Repressi... ...e Regulated, Macmillan Press Ltd., 1998. Stephany Griffith-Jones, Manuel F Montes, and Anwar Nasution, Short-Term Capital Flows and Economic Crises, O...

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...ut it: "criticism that his enforcement was too heavy-handed". President Bush chose California Rep. Christopher Cox, a Republican, to replace him. ... ...uninterrupted service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous cru... ...d insiders - trading 4. The Fair Play theorem 5. The Random Walk Theory 6. The Monte Carlo Fallacy 7. Structures - Infra and hyper 8. Market... ...or tomorrow's prices. b. Share prices are equally distributed over time. 17. The Monte Carlo Fallacy and the Stock Exchange (no connection betwee... ...tain no information about the future 8. Random walk a. Prices are independent (Monte Carlo fallacy) b. Prices are equally distributed in time ... .... Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerous courses in Finance Theory ...

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...he weight of your body on a mattress. I had trouble sleeping on my bed in California, but these air flotation mattresses at the hotel are like being... ...redness. L‘Oreal cosmetics has the slogan ‗I‘m worth it.‘ I‘ve heard more California women spout it whenever they want to do something out of the or... ...presentatives of the citizens?‖ —―Right Ray. Look at what happened in California to their democratic vote. In 1994 Proposition 187 was passed by... ...ng basic wealth is hard work. Creating babies is more fun than winning in Monte Carlo. People can‘t see beyond the ends of their noses, or should I s... ...o and Canada the illegitimacy rate is 38 percent; in the UK it is 40%, in El Salvador it is 73 percent; and it‘s 86 percent in Jamaica. So it is not ...

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...and the only time I ever saw him drunk. … Later, they moved to Long Beach, California. My brother, Erik, works there too, also in aviation.” Lacey wan... ...wed- ish food. My mother was a great cook.” “You said your parents live in California. Are they well?” “Yes. At seventy, Dad has one foot in retiremen... ...erested in aerospace as well, and decided to go that route, so now he’s in California, as I told you. Erik and his wife, Meryl, have two daughters. Gr... ...rs before, on a vacation in Acapulco, Nancy and Chubby had been victims of Monte- zuma’s revenge and they had graphically described the agony to Jana....

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...e University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collection of the University of California, Los Angeles. Paul Alexander Bartlett’s life was lived with a s... ...lcaeus sat on his leather stool, his dog at his feet, sunlight behind him; el- bows on his knees, he said: “...I prefer that hymn. There’s really no ... ...? Did you find it in the Argentière Pass?” “No, I found it when I climbed Monte Rosa, when I was making notes on the quality of light among the glac... ...e. Alley folk jeered. They shouted “Christ the Juggler;” they called Him “El Puto”...“the glassy-eyed Gascon.” Riffraff threw mud and garbage. I ha... ...ht Sir Francis Drake. Ben was a sharer of friends. I was dumbfounded but “El Draque,” contemptuously at ease, sat on my backstage table, his plumed h... ...dorado. Who knows, as in Sergas de Esplandián, we may reach the Island of California, in- habited by Amazon women with passionate hearts and great s... ...eeks, happy dreams; in one of those repeated dreams we eloped, we went to California, we built a beautiful home... My love for her has never gone aw...

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...iagram. Using Feyn- man’s rules, the self-energy Σ(p) as a function of the el- ectron’s incoming (outgoing) energy-momentump μ is given by the integra... ...03, v. 70, 553–571. 10. Sklar L. Space, time and space-time. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997. 11. Brown S. The seventeenth-century inte... ...i Napoli, Universit´ a “Federico II” di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo Edifcio N, via Cinthia 45, I-80126 Napoli, Italy E-mail: ca...

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...nty Cluett& Sons 1 16 State Street North Adams iflMSiii**^ ' ' : . I \U ' el- ing rer» E itor. >n at* in lent* her leks. 4 \T it. WILLIAMS KEOORD If ... .... , held an informal dinner at the Brooklyn University clul), corner South El- liott street ami Hanover place, on April 1. Iil07. There were about thi... ...oe, Craw- ford, Ehart, H. W. Fowle, How- ard, Karoher. Eelley.Eissani, Lu- Monte, Merrill, Potter, Rooney, Ryan, Sheedy, Shields, Stevens, Stocking, T... ...e Harvard law school. Johnson will study architecture at the University of California. Continued in the next isme. MONDAY. APRIL 15 7.80 p. m.—Last of... ...s home on Lawton avenue. Auburn, N. Y., on Sunday. April 7. He was born in Montezuma, N. Y.. on February 9. 1854 and prepared for college at the Aubur... ...and Botticelli. ^ 1 WILLIAMS RE(X)KD, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1907 l;< m\' i I-.. El^t HUlmmB HSinavh I^UKLIBHBD KVERY MONDAY AND THUKSDAY EVKNINO OK TUB COL... ...n House Boston^ Mass. CRITICAL AND SCIENTIFIC FRENCH LITERATURE A Study of Montesquieu and Buf- fon by M. Lug^uet The fifth of the French lectures now...

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... he had deserted from a ship trading to La Plata, to enlist in the navy of Montevideo, then under the command of Garibaldi. Afterwards, in the Italian... ...he commanded a negro company under Garibaldi, during the fa- mous siege of Montevideo, and died heroically with his negroes at the fording of the Boya... ...gret- ted, however, in the course of the same conversa- tion, that General Montero insisted upon going, too. General Montero, whom the beginning of th... ... and from a sense of propriety, announced him once in the sol- emn words, “El Señor Gobernador has arrived.” 92 Nostromo Don Jose Avellanos, then in ... ...uch as to say, “You might have found a worse name for an old soldier.” And El Señor Gobernador he had remained, with his small jokes upon his function... ... were on not so intimate terms. But no one could be on intimate terms with El Señor Doctor, who, with his twisted shoulders, drooping head, sardonic m... ...King of Sulaco, and the head of the silver and steel interests far away in California, the conviction was growing that any attempt made by men of educ... ...ir he always carries everywhere. He had been away trad- ing in the Gulf of California, he said, looking straight past us at the wall, as his manner is...

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...il- grimage for the summary globe-trotter; but to one who lives upon its sides, Mount Saint Helena soon becomes a centre of interest. It is the Mont B... ... spring- time many splashing brooks. From its summit you must have an excellent lesson of geography: seeing, to the south, San Francisco Bay, with Tam... ...l unflecked with vapour, the sea fogs were pouring in from seaward, over the hill- tops of Marin county, in one great, shapeless, silver cloud. South ... ...avels armed, and the stage is not only a link between country and city, and the vehicle of news, but has a faint warfaring aroma, like a man who shoul...

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...e train and in my wak- ing moments, it was rich and various, and breathed an el- egance peculiar to itself. The tall corn pleased the eye; the trees w... ...not written to you before now, you will be surprised to heare that we are in California, and that poor Thomas” (another brother, of fifteen) “is dead.... .... We went along very well till we got within six or seven hun- dred miles of California, when the Indians attacked us. We found places where they had ... ... traveld with them till we arrived at the settlements; and know I am safe in California, and got to good home, and going to school. “Jerry is working ... ...ailed; the whole round world had been prospected and condemned; there was no El Dorado anywhere; and till one could emigrate to the moon, it seemed as... ...ins CHAPTER II THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL THE WOODS AND THE PACIFIC THE BAY OF MONTEREY has been compared by no less a per- son than General Sherman to ... ... the shank; the mouth of the Salinas river is at the middle of the bend; and Monterey itself is cosily ensconced beside the barb. Thus the ancient cap... ...ward to enclose the bay. The waves which lap so quietly about the jetties of Monterey grow louder and larger in the distance; you can see the breakers... ...on to the heel of the land, to Fife Ness, overlooked by a sea-wood of matted el- 82 Across the Plains ders and the quaint old mansion of Balcomie, it...

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...s, half-wearily, doggedly, the eyebrows lifted in strange abstraction, the el- bow resting on the knee. Detached, he sits and dreams and broods, weari... ...ers, all of them more or less realistically conveyed. One Christus is very el- egant, combed and brushed and foppish on his cross, as Gabriele D’Annun... ... fixture was the thing she militated against. So Paolo went to America, to California, into the gold mines. Maria wanted the future, the endless possi... ...his, after the child of their opposition was born, that Paolo went away to California, leaving his San Gaudenzio, travelling with several compan- ions... ...compan- ions, like blind beasts, to Havre, and thence to New York, then to California. He stayed five years in the gold-mines, in a wild valley, livin... ...y left San Gaudenzio. I asked him, ‘Used you to think of it, the lake, the Monte Baldo, the laurel trees down the slope?’ He tried to see what I wante...

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...one man who could. I knew he could, however, because he told me so him- self. He was a middle-aged, simple-hearted miner who had lived in a lonely cor... ... else had them, too—old men and young ones, old women and nice young ladies. If there is one spec- tacle that is unpleasanter than another, it is that... ...ut it—for in these matters I was ignorant. I opened Mr. Hinchliff’s Summer Months Among the Alps (published 1857), and selected his account of his asc... ...e rising out of the barren ocean of ice and rock around it.” Then the Breithorn and the Dent Blanche caught the radiant glow; but “the in- tervening m... ...d hope to see the sun himself, yet the whole air soon grew warmer after the splen- did birth of the day.” 195 A Tramp Abroad He gazed at the lofty cr... ...semen, I noticed that even the larger raindrops made it shake. I called Harris’s attention to it, and he noticed it, too. It seemed to me that if I ow... ... his own as a candidate for the skin. I sided with the geologist of the Expedition in the belief that this patch of skin had once helped to cover a Si... ...Switzerland, and they must all be as elaborately declined as the examples above suggested. Difficult?—troublesome?—these words cannot describe it. I h...

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... charge of the magazine room the readers did not ask for suggestions about el- evated essays. They grunted, “Wanta find the Leather Goods Gazette for ... ... the traveling sales- man at the end of the table, and Kennicott’s jerking el- bow was a grunt embodied. She persisted: “Do you get to see many plays,... ...r when—” “Oh, I was not!” “—you talked about encouraging reading; and Mrs. El- der thought you were patronizing when you said she had `such a pretty l... ...ht. The Arab village of Djeddah—an intricately chased jewel-box. A town in California which had changed itself from the barren brick fronts and slatte... ... she taught for two years in an iron-range town of blurry-faced Tatars and Montenegrins, and wastes of ore, and when she came to Gopher Prairie, its t... ... the towns leave them in old age, if they can afford it, and go to live in California or in the cities. The reason, Carol insisted, is not a whiskered... ...he Only and Original First Annual Tennis Tour- nament of Forest Hills, Del Monte, and Gopher Prairie!” “Don’t know as I blame you,” said Kennicott. “W... ...he clutched his arm. “You’ve got to be sweet to me, and kind! I’m going to California—mountains, sea. Please don’t argue about it, because I’m going.”... ...e, through towns with bell-towered missions and orange-groves; they viewed Monterey and San Fran- cisco and a forest of sequoias. They bathed in the s...

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...ub- ergines, foreign apples—apples from the State of New York, apples from California, apples from Canada, apples from New Zealand, “pretty lookin’ fr... ...er words in French, and a little indica- tor quivered and waggled, between Montee and Descente. “That’s all right,” said Bert. “That tells if you’re g... ...ing eyes at a huge cluster of great clouds— a cluster of slowly dissolving Monte Rosas, sunlit below. His attention was arrested by a strange black sp... ...tter object over- board. The statoscope responded with a vigorous swing to Monte. “The blessed thing goes up if you only look overboard,” he remarked,... ...nges, two unopened tins of corned beef and one opened, and five large tins California peaches. He jotted it down on a piece of paper “‘ Ain’t much sol...

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...er the others: Violet Melrose’s place at V ersailles, your aunt’s villa at Monte Carlo—and a moor!” She was conscious of throwing in the moor tentativ... ...: all our Paris crowd would have run us down within twenty-four hours. And Monte Carlo is ruled out be- cause it’s exactly the kind of place everybody... ...August with the Gillows at Newport … and the only alternative was to go to California with the Bockheimers, whom she had hitherto refused even to dine... ... to spend next summer with her at Newport …. If I don’t, I’ve got to go to California with the Bockheimers- so good-bye.” Suddenly in tears, she was o...

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...se, and his death had left her alone, for her only daughter had married in California, and could not afford the long journey to New York to see her mo... ...-finished front of a brick and limestone flat-house that reared its flimsy el- egance above a row of tottering tenements and stables. “Dead sure?” he ... ...yant, without looking at him. “Father, had you forgotten that the man from Monte Amiato was to come back this morning with an answer about the bas- re...

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...u— some genuine bargains that came in to-day: SILVER GROVE.—Cute four-room California bungalow, a.m.i., garage, dandy shade tree, swell neighborhood, ... ...abbitt every inch was individual and stirring. As always he noted that the California Building across the way was three stories lower, therefore three... ...-story hut which beside the granite and red-brick ponderousness of the old California Building resembled a bath-house un- der a cliff, he commented, “... ...mmense and joyful maturity of a boy who is respectfully listened to by his el- ders. Babbitt concentrated on him with grateful affection: “I can see w... ...?” “George, you speak with the tongue of wisdom and sagashiteriferousness. El Wing’s wife has gone on to Pittsburg. Let’s see if we can’t gather him i... ...nate one!—were privileged to view that fairy and foreign scene, nothing at Monte Carlo or the choicest ambassadorial sets of foreign capitals could be...

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..., one minutes walk from Castle Garden; convenient to Castle Garden, the Steamboat Landings, California Steamers and Liverpool Ships; Board and Lodging... ...isappointments, and dangers, quite a hard enough life without their dark countenances at my el- bow, so that what I want is a happy-minded Smethurst p... ...olemn volumes; Borrow’s Bible in Spain, the Pilgrim ’s Progress, Guy Mannering and Rob Roy, Monte Cristo and the Vicomte de Bragelonne, immortal Boswe...

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... Thursday I was better, but still out of ability to do aught but read awful trash. This is the time one misses civilisation; I wished to send out for ... ...TER XV JAN 31ST, ’92. MY DEAR COLVIN,—No letter at all from you, and this scratch from me!Here is a year that opens ill. Lloyd is off to ‘the coast’ s... ...was all planned between us and drafted by Lloyd; from that moment he has had nothing to do with it except talking it over. For we changed our plan, ga...

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... ‘em out of it. When I built this house you’d have thought I was moving to California! Nobody ever HAD built above Fortieth Street—no, says I, nor abo... ...t out by mistake at wayside stations: at places like Boulogne, or Pisa, or Monte Carlo—and it wasn’t at all different from the old world they’d left, ...

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...a stem so narrow that it might be clasped with the two hands, it waves its el- 32 The V oyage of the Beagle egant head at the height of forty or fift... ...Voyage, vol. i. p. 213 46 The V oyage of the Beagle CHAPTER III MALDONADO Monte Video—Excursion to R. Polanco—Lazo and Bolas —Partridges — Absence of... ...ng in little eddies, with the adjoining fluid. July 26th. — We anchored at Monte Video. The Beagle was employed in surveying the extreme southern and ... ...first piece of news we heard was, that, the day be- fore, a traveller from Monte Video had been found dead on the road, with his throat cut. This happ... ...ched to it. 74 The V oyage of the Beagle The town is indifferently called El Carmen or Patagones. It is built on the face of a cliff which fronts the... ...r lazos, and slaughtered her. We here had the four necessaries of life “en el campo,” — pasture for the horses, water (only a muddy puddle), meat and ... ...stern coast, as Dr. Hooker tells me, it extends to the R. San Francisco in California, and perhaps even to Kamtschatka. We thus have an immense range ...

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...istration’s Approach 203 7. THE ATTACK LOOMS 215 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembl... ... facility manager provided frequent updates to Acting Deputy Administrator Monte Belger and other executives at FAA headquarters as United 93 headed t... ...nd Center that the deputy director for air traffic services was talking to Monte Belger about scrambling “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 29 Final1-4.4pp 7/17/0... ...0 Within the FAA, the administrator, Jane Garvey , and her acting deputy , Monte Belger, had not been told of a confirmed hijacking before they learne... ...or Afghanistan’s warring factions in a project by the Union Oil Company of California (UNOCAL) to build a pipeline across the country. While there was... ... the famous Afghan mujahid Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, head of the Hizbul- Ittihad El-Islami (Islamic Union Party). Sayyaf became KSM’s mentor and pro- vided ... ...e United States, therefore became the primary target. For similar reasons, California also became a target for KSM. 32 KSM claims that the earlier bom... ...nspiracy. Mohamed Atta Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorne... ...med as a center for the group, as he would write on them the notation “Dar el Ansar,” or “house of the followers.” 82 In addition to Atta, Binalshibh,...

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...DMUND GOSSE [17 HERIOT ROW, EDINBURGH, APRIL 16, 1879]. POOL OF SILOAM, By EL DORADO, DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS, ARCADIA MY DEAR GOSSE, – Herewith of the d... ...ith good news of the mistress. R. L. S. CHAPTER IV – THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT, MONTEREY AND SAN FRANCISCO, JULY 1879-JULY 1880 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN ON... ... R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN [COAST LINE MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 1879.] HERE is another curious start in my life. I am... ... an Angora goat-ranche, in the Coast Line Mountains, eigh- teen miles from Monterey. I was camping out, but got so sick that the two rancheros took me... .... S. 112 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN MONTEREY, DITTO CO., CALIFORNIA, 21ST OCTOBER [1879]. MY DEAR COL VIN, – Al... ... of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN MONTEREY, DITTO CO., CALIFORNIA, 21ST OCTOBER [1879]. MY DEAR COL VIN, – Although you have absol... ...The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 1879. MY DEAR COLVIN, – I received your letter with d...

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...t struck him that the things to take for that purpose were oranges—because California is the orange country—and comfortable folding chairs. So he boug... ...chairs. So he bought I don’t know how many cases of oranges—the great cool California oranges, and half-a-dozen folding chairs in a special case that ... ...t had really smashed them up had been a perfectly com- mon-place affair at Monte Carlo—an affair with a cosmopolitan harpy who passed for the mistress... ...to tell me all, secure a divorce from me, and go with Edward and settle in California… . I do not suppose that she was really serious in this. It woul... ...ra’s priests—a man of the world— who suggested that she should take him to Monte Carlo. He had the idea that what Edward needed, in order to fit him f... ...ite suddenly returned, and he remembered Leonora. He found at his hotel at Monte Carlo a telegram from Leonora, dispatched from London, saying; “Pleas...

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....................................... .............................. 79 THE CALIFORNIAN’S TALE ........................................................... ...which she had so honorably earned, what was he doing? Breaking the bank at Monte Carlo. He stopped. He could go no farther; he could not bear the rest... ...iously at their triumph, THROUGH THE TEARS OF THE STORM. * * * THE CALIFORNIAN’S TALE THIRTY FIVE YEARS AGO I was out prospecting on the St... ...relatives and friends, and be to them thenceforth as one dead. Round about California in that day were scattered a host of these living dead men—pride... ...t he was the first white person who ever interested himself in the work of el evating and civilizing our Indians. He built a commodious jail and put ... ...ng day he claimed with satisfaction that he had had a more restraining and el evating influence on the Indians than any other reformer that ever labo... ...y are such pretty animals; but for long distance or for scenery I ride the el ephant. He hoists me up with his trunk, but I can get off myself; when ...

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...s for their execution were appointed by the Crown, and sent out to the New El Dorado. The Mexicans had been brought up ignorant of how to legislate or... ...s he returned to the army in time to command his division in the battle of Monterey, and served with it to the end of the war. The second occasion on ... ...d an admirable physique, promising long life. But he was taken sick before Monterey, and died within a few days. I have always believed that had his l... ...eral T aylor selected. It entered a pass in the Sierra Madre Mountains, at Monterey, through which the main road runs to the City of Mexico. Monterey ... ... out of the moun- tain-pass, and is backed by a range of hills of moderate el- evation. T o the north, between the city and Walnut Springs, stretches ... ... with Lake Chalco by a narrow channel. There is a high rocky mound, called El Penon, on the right of the road, springing up from the low flat ground d... ...nts were spreading it. Soon after his graduation, Slaughter was ordered to California and took passage by a sailing vessel going around Cape Horn. The... ...e lying at an- chor after reaching his place of destination. On landing in California he found orders which had come by the Isthmus, notifying him of ... ... sick all the way. But when he arrived at the East he was again ordered to California, this time defi- nitely, and at this date was making his third t...