. The ephebic oath . background of Contra Costa hills makes acontinuous sky line. The early explorers failed to discover theBay from without and never entered and Englishman sailed by, ignorantof what was within; and their lookouts sawno sign. From the east the vision is one of unob-scured splendor. Seen from the Berkeleyhills, la Bocana de la Ensenada de los Faral-lones, the Gate of the Gulf of the Farallones,deserves all the praise we lavish on it. Forsixty-four years it has borne its present his survey sheet in 1848, Fremont markedthe word Chrysopylse, Gates of Gold. And
. The ephebic oath . background of Contra Costa hills makes acontinuous sky line. The early explorers failed to discover theBay from without and never entered and Englishman sailed by, ignorantof what was within; and their lookouts sawno sign. From the east the vision is one of unob-scured splendor. Seen from the Berkeleyhills, la Bocana de la Ensenada de los Faral-lones, the Gate of the Gulf of the Farallones,deserves all the praise we lavish on it. Forsixty-four years it has borne its present his survey sheet in 1848, Fremont markedthe word Chrysopylse, Gates of Gold. Andyet four score years before the pathfindercame others who also were impressed bywhat thev saw. Portola, Crespi, and Cos- 60 LABOCANAi. tanso sought a grand estero, the Port of Mon-terey. They came to it, but did not recognizeit, and wandered on. The Bay of Monterey,as they saw it, did not meet the descriptiongiven by Viscaino. Working north anddrenched by the early rains, they made campnear where Montara now is. Two daystravel would have brought them to the Sergeant and some soldiers, sent to hunt,worked slowly eastward and saw from the highground the southern portion of the inner General, the Captain and the pious Padresaw from the heights above the camp theouter reaches from Point Pedro to expedition returned. Two years lateranother company toiled north, and on a dayin March, Don Pedro Fages, Padre Crespiand twelve soldiers reached the eastern shore 61 LABOCANAI
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