Santa Barbara and Montecito, past and present . nd the gardens carpetedwith flowers. How is the scene changed! Hill and valleyare as beautiful as ever, with the sweep of thegreat ocean at their feet as steady and as still graze on the foot-hills and the liar-vests still respond to the appeal of the laborer^who sow and gather them; grapes and orangesripen in the sun, and flowers bloom in ever-in-creasing profusion, but the glory of the Francis-can has departed, and others reap what he hassowfi. Ihe Spaniard has been succeeded bv theMexican, the Mexican supplanteii by the Ameri-can
Santa Barbara and Montecito, past and present . nd the gardens carpetedwith flowers. How is the scene changed! Hill and valleyare as beautiful as ever, with the sweep of thegreat ocean at their feet as steady and as still graze on the foot-hills and the liar-vests still respond to the appeal of the laborer^who sow and gather them; grapes and orangesripen in the sun, and flowers bloom in ever-in-creasing profusion, but the glory of the Francis-can has departed, and others reap what he hassowfi. Ihe Spaniard has been succeeded bv theMexican, the Mexican supplanteii by the Ameri-can, and the Indian has vanished altogether fromthis c(rast. In the valley, where the devout were 63 SANTA BARBARA gathered by the beils in the old towers of theMission to a common worship in its chapel, nowrise the spires of many another church. For a comprehensive account of the Missionperiod of Californian history, the student is rec-ommended to peruse the four interesting vol-umes compiled by Padre Zephyrin Englehardt,of the Franciscan Spanish Supremacy—1796-1832 California under the regime of the Spaniardsdates from the arrival of Caspar de Portola, whoafterwards became its first Covernor, in to lack of supplies of all kinds, and es-pecially foodstuffs, possession of the country wasalmost given up on several occasions, in fact,their straits were such that the soldiers had todepend on the Indians for food, trading their fewragged garments in exchange. The land and 64 AND MO xN T E C I r O climate were well suited to agricultural wealth,but the richest land cannot be developed withoutmen, animals, or machinery to do the work, sincethe province lacked everything from a plough ora smiths forge to a piece of cloth or a nail;everything of this nature had to be importedfrom New Spain (Mexico) by way oi San of the best narratives of this time is an ac-count published by Portola at Madrid on , 1773. It would appear that until after theyhad passed
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