. To California and back;. silver,in the likeness of legs, arms and hands, brought tothe altar of Our Lady by those who had been healedof wounds or disease; rude stone gods of the hea-then, and domestic utensils and implements of , too, among innumerable relics, may be seenancient maps of the New World, lettered in Latinand in French, on which California appears as anisland of the Pacific, and the country at large is con-fidently displayed with grotesque inaccuracy. Nearly a mile distant from the palace, on an emi-nence overlooking the town, stands the old ChapelRosario, now neighbore
. To California and back;. silver,in the likeness of legs, arms and hands, brought tothe altar of Our Lady by those who had been healedof wounds or disease; rude stone gods of the hea-then, and domestic utensils and implements of , too, among innumerable relics, may be seenancient maps of the New World, lettered in Latinand in French, on which California appears as anisland of the Pacific, and the country at large is con-fidently displayed with grotesque inaccuracy. Nearly a mile distant from the palace, on an emi-nence overlooking the town, stands the old ChapelRosario, now neighbored by the Ramona school forApache children. In 1692 Diego de Vargas, march-ing up from the south, stood upon that hill with hislittle army of 200 men and looked over into the cityfrom which his countrymen had been driven withslaughter a dozen years before. There he knelt andvowed to build upon the spot a chapel for the glori-fication of Our Lady of the Rosary, provided shewould fight upon his side that day. The town was, 22.
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