. To California and back;. ^li ^rll^tft. 21 the first viceroy. Seventeen American and seventy-six Mexican and Spanish rulers have successivelyoccupied the palace. It has survived all thosestrange modulations by which a Spanish provincehas become a territory of the Union bordering onstatehood. The story of the palace stretches backinto real antiquity, to a time when the Inquisitionhad powers, when zealous friars of the Order of exhorted throngs of dimly comprehendingheathen, and when the mailed warriors of Coronadotold marvelous uncontradicted tales of ogres that werebelieved to dwel
. To California and back;. ^li ^rll^tft. 21 the first viceroy. Seventeen American and seventy-six Mexican and Spanish rulers have successivelyoccupied the palace. It has survived all thosestrange modulations by which a Spanish provincehas become a territory of the Union bordering onstatehood. The story of the palace stretches backinto real antiquity, to a time when the Inquisitionhad powers, when zealous friars of the Order of exhorted throngs of dimly comprehendingheathen, and when the mailed warriors of Coronadotold marvelous uncontradicted tales of ogres that werebelieved to dwell in the surrounding wilderness. Be-neath its roof are garnered priceless treasures of thatancient time, which the curious visitor may are faded pictures of saints painted uponpuma-skins; figures laboriously wrought in wood toshadow forth the Nazarene; votive offerings of 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 h
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