. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal . n 276 years before the French Revolu-tion began. Cabrillo sailed into San Diego harbor four years before MartinLuther died. Sir Francis Drake careened the Golden Hind, under the lee ofPoint Reyes before Shakespeare had learned his alphabet. Junipero Serrafounded our Mission of St. Francis of Assisi in the same year that the LibertyBell rang out the Declaration of Independence. And he
. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal . n 276 years before the French Revolu-tion began. Cabrillo sailed into San Diego harbor four years before MartinLuther died. Sir Francis Drake careened the Golden Hind, under the lee ofPoint Reyes before Shakespeare had learned his alphabet. Junipero Serrafounded our Mission of St. Francis of Assisi in the same year that the LibertyBell rang out the Declaration of Independence. And here he declaredwas the first New England on the continent, so named by Drake 41 yearsbefore the Mayflower reached Plymouth Rock. Of later California history Judge Davis gave this vivid sketch, whichmust suffice as an index to his interesting paper. The past of California possesses a richness of romantic interest, avariety of contrast, a wealth of resourcefulness, and an intrinsic importancethat enthralls the imagination. The Spanish exploration initiated by Cortezand afterwards revived by Galvez, a marvelous drama of world politics onthese western shores, the civilization and colonization of the Missions by. HISTORIANS OF THE PACIFIC AREA 59 the Franciscan fathers, the presidios of the Army, the meteoric visit of SirFrancis Drake and his brother freebooters, the ominous encroachments ofthe Russian outposts, the decades of the pastoral life of the haciendas andits princely hospitality culminating in the splendid idle forties, the pettypolitical controversies of the Mexican regime, and the play of plot and coun-terplot before the gringo came, the secret diplomatic movements of theUnited States to insure the blocking of possible Russian, French, and Eng-lish intrigue, the excitement of the conquest and the governmental problemsof the interregnum following the Mexican war, the story of the discovery ofgold and its world-thrilling incidents and of the hardship and courage of theemigr
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