History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . ade in Los Angeles, where the better part of the grapes raisedwere used for it. When any considerable crime was ever committed, it wasunder its influence. Its evil efiects, however, might possibly be attributed to acounterfeit, which is yet in use in the southern part of the State, and whichis one of the vilest of concoctions. Those who are acquainted with its evileffects say that it is too unutterably villainous for words, and the wretchwho has swallowed three fingers o
History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . ade in Los Angeles, where the better part of the grapes raisedwere used for it. When any considerable crime was ever committed, it wasunder its influence. Its evil efiects, however, might possibly be attributed to acounterfeit, which is yet in use in the southern part of the State, and whichis one of the vilest of concoctions. Those who are acquainted with its evileffects say that it is too unutterably villainous for words, and the wretchwho has swallowed three fingers of it maj^ bid adieu to all hope of days passedwithout headaches and nights put in without unsufferable agony, for a weekat least. The beverage most in use, however, was the mission wine, and amajor domo has informed the writer that he made fifty barrels a year of it San Josd. Milk and cheese, beef, mutton, vegetables, bread, and fruit constituted the daily diet. Potatoes were unknown, butpinole was plentiful Wild strawberries were numerous about the coast, andhoney was procured from wild HISTORICAL SKETCH OF CALIFORNIA. 49 The Californians were not without their native manufactures, and they didnot, as is generally supposed, rely altogether upon the slaughter of cattle and thesale of hides and tallow. The missionaries had taught them the cultivationof the grape and manufacture of wine. Hemp, flax, cotton and tobacco wei egrown in small quantities. Soap, leather, oil, brandy, wool, salt, soda, har-ness, saddles, wagons, blankets, etc., were manufactured. Wheat even then? was an article of export and sold to Eussian vessels. There were occasional pohtical troubles, but these did not much interferewith the profound quiet into which the people had .settled. The change froma monarchy into a republic scarcely produced a ripple. The invasions of theAmericans did not stir them very profoundly; and if their domains had notbeen invaded, their lands seized
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