. To California and back;. and brotherly loveruled as never before. It is true they had their trials. Earthquakes,which have been almost unknown in California for aquarter of a century, were then not uncommon, andwere at times disastrous, /^io de los Temhlores wasthe name of a stream derived fromthe frequency ofearth rockings in the region through which it flowed;and in the second decade of our century the dreadedtemblor \x\iS&i the 120-foot tower of the Mission SanJuan Capistrano and sent it crashing down throughthe roof upon a congregation, of whom nearly fortyperished. Those, too, were lawl
. To California and back;. and brotherly loveruled as never before. It is true they had their trials. Earthquakes,which have been almost unknown in California for aquarter of a century, were then not uncommon, andwere at times disastrous, /^io de los Temhlores wasthe name of a stream derived fromthe frequency ofearth rockings in the region through which it flowed;and in the second decade of our century the dreadedtemblor \x\iS&i the 120-foot tower of the Mission SanJuan Capistrano and sent it crashing down throughthe roof upon a congregation, of whom nearly fortyperished. Those, too, were lawless times upon themain. Pirates, cruising the South Seas in quest ofbooty, hovered about the California coast, and thenthe mission men stood to their arms, while the womenand children fled to the interior canons with theirportable treasures. One buccaneer, Bouchard, re-pulsed in his attempt upon Dolores and Santa Bar-bara, descended successfully upon another missionand dwelt there riotously for a time, carousing, and74. destroying such valuables as he couKl not carr}away, while the entire population quaked in tli>forest along the Rio Trabuco. This was the sanuluckless San Juan Capistrano, six years after theearthquake visitation. Then, too, there were bicker- <^*ings of a political nature, and struggles for place,after the rule of Mexico had succeeded to that ofSpain, but the common people troubled themselveslittle with such matters. idle end of the l-ranciscan dynasty came suddenlywith the secularization of the mission property by theMexican government to replete the exhausted treas-uries of Santa Ana. Sadly the fathers forsook thescene of their long labors, and silently the Indiansmelted away into the wilderness, and the darknessof their natural ways, save such as had intermarriedwith the families of Spanish soldiers and churches are now, for the most part, only de-cayed legacies and fragmentary reminders of a timewhose like the world will never know again
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