. The ephebic oath . Then the weather changed even as it doesnow and the first recorded southeast stormbegan. So hard did it blow, the small vessels,the Capitana San Diego and the Fragata LosTres Reyes labored heavily, as well they January 7th (old style), 1603, these voy-agers passed what they called the Puerto deSan Francisco. And the narrative con-tinues: The Fragata, concluding there was nonecessity to seek a harbor, continued thevoyage; and the Capitana, thinking they werein company, did not show a light, so in themorning they were not in sight of each other,and the General retur
. The ephebic oath . Then the weather changed even as it doesnow and the first recorded southeast stormbegan. So hard did it blow, the small vessels,the Capitana San Diego and the Fragata LosTres Reyes labored heavily, as well they January 7th (old style), 1603, these voy-agers passed what they called the Puerto deSan Francisco. And the narrative con-tinues: The Fragata, concluding there was nonecessity to seek a harbor, continued thevoyage; and the Capitana, thinking they werein company, did not show a light, so in themorning they were not in sight of each other,and the General returned with the Capitanato the puerto de San Francisco. Perhaps it was not easy to display a lightduring the storm. But on all the face of the 55 THEL1CHTS0VTSIDE. waters there was not a single light; no friend-ly gleam to tell of human sympathy in thedark. We who look through the Gate, now sowell lit, and mark the steady beam of thelightship, the flicker from the Farallones, theflash from Point Reyes and the kindly signalsfrom Bonita and Mile Rock, may well dosilent homage to the memory of those daringsouls who sailed these seas, ere yet there wasa City within the Gate, or welcoming lightsoutside.
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