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Sacramento's Largest Store Store News Vol. 500 Sacramento, Monday, July 30th, 1923 The Romance of Sacramento By Christina Krysto No. 112 (The Romance of Sacramento began in the Store News of July 23, 1923, with the legend of the formation of the Sacramento River.) III. The Breaking of the Golden Seal The Dream of Cortez Realized After Two and a Half Centuries. , The visions of adventurous men which were iirred by tales of Cortez and his sailors could not f easily forgotten. So, for a long time attempts further discovery—for the most part wholly unsuccessful—went on. And, side by side with the straightforward stories of eye-witnesses, stories of the unattractiveness of the new land, the myths of the treasures persisted and lived and grew. For it were strange indeed if the sailors of these various expeditions had kept strictly to the truth. We learn from the yellowed pages of the History of California by Miguel Venegas—published in 1759 that— "A desire for alleviating in some measure, by strange and surprising accounts, the uneasy sensations arising from the miscarriage of the enterprises for its (California's) conquest stimulated many, at their ignominious return from those expeditions, to court popularity, palliate, miscarriage and render their company acceptable by a fruitful invention of fables. The frequent repetition of these opened a door for improvement and emulation. The last who arrived thought themselves obliged to add some circumstances of greater terror and wonder than what had been related by the first adventurers: and this they did with less caution, as their narratives could not be easily disproved." So expedition after expedition was fitted out by adventurous men of Spain, ending, one after another, in blasted hopes, and nothing was brought back save the "fruitful invention of fables" referred to in the passage above. Upper California Explored. Then, several years after Grijalva's venture, Cabrillo succeeded in sailing along the coast of Upper California. He pushed farther and farther north until he reached the Farrallones at the entrance to the Golden Gate which guards the Bay of San Francisco. By a freak of chance he did not' discover the greatest harbor of the New World, The Seal of the Golden Gate was broken from the inside—San Francisco Bay discovered. and the seal of the Golden Gate remained unbroken for two long centuries more. The Golden Hind came next—in 1578—a British ship bearing Sir Frances Drake, who also went unheeding past the Golden Gate and made his landing in a bay some sixty miles farther north. Unaware of the fact that the Spanish flag and the Spanish cross had already been planted upon the new land, Drake took possession of it in the name of Queen Elizabeth, calling it New Albion. For a long time thereafter the English spoke of California by that name, describing it as "Drake's land back of Canada". Another voyage is recorded, that of Sebastian Viscayno, who—in 1602—found and named the Bay of Monterey, but who, like his predecessors, did not venture even a little way inland. After that, for more than a century and a half, Upper California remained unvisited, its Golden Seal still unbroken, forgotten wholly by the civilized world. The Jesuit Missions. Meanwhile, in Lower California, the Church was taking up the task in which the warriors had failed, the task of civilizing the natives and developing the country by colonization. And there is something deeply stirring in this enterprise of the Fathers, an enterprise requiring far more courage than was needed for the first expeditions of discovery. The dreadful loneliness of an untouched land, the actual privations, the unending patience necessary to the winning of the Indians' confidence, the readiness to turn into soldiers the moment these Indians rose in actual revolt—all (Continued on page 4.) Weinstock, Lubin & Co.
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Text | Sacramento's Largest Store Store News Vol. 500 Sacramento, Monday, July 30th, 1923 The Romance of Sacramento By Christina Krysto No. 112 (The Romance of Sacramento began in the Store News of July 23, 1923, with the legend of the formation of the Sacramento River.) III. The Breaking of the Golden Seal The Dream of Cortez Realized After Two and a Half Centuries. , The visions of adventurous men which were iirred by tales of Cortez and his sailors could not f easily forgotten. So, for a long time attempts further discovery—for the most part wholly unsuccessful—went on. And, side by side with the straightforward stories of eye-witnesses, stories of the unattractiveness of the new land, the myths of the treasures persisted and lived and grew. For it were strange indeed if the sailors of these various expeditions had kept strictly to the truth. We learn from the yellowed pages of the History of California by Miguel Venegas—published in 1759 that— "A desire for alleviating in some measure, by strange and surprising accounts, the uneasy sensations arising from the miscarriage of the enterprises for its (California's) conquest stimulated many, at their ignominious return from those expeditions, to court popularity, palliate, miscarriage and render their company acceptable by a fruitful invention of fables. The frequent repetition of these opened a door for improvement and emulation. The last who arrived thought themselves obliged to add some circumstances of greater terror and wonder than what had been related by the first adventurers: and this they did with less caution, as their narratives could not be easily disproved." So expedition after expedition was fitted out by adventurous men of Spain, ending, one after another, in blasted hopes, and nothing was brought back save the "fruitful invention of fables" referred to in the passage above. Upper California Explored. Then, several years after Grijalva's venture, Cabrillo succeeded in sailing along the coast of Upper California. He pushed farther and farther north until he reached the Farrallones at the entrance to the Golden Gate which guards the Bay of San Francisco. By a freak of chance he did not' discover the greatest harbor of the New World, The Seal of the Golden Gate was broken from the inside—San Francisco Bay discovered. and the seal of the Golden Gate remained unbroken for two long centuries more. The Golden Hind came next—in 1578—a British ship bearing Sir Frances Drake, who also went unheeding past the Golden Gate and made his landing in a bay some sixty miles farther north. Unaware of the fact that the Spanish flag and the Spanish cross had already been planted upon the new land, Drake took possession of it in the name of Queen Elizabeth, calling it New Albion. For a long time thereafter the English spoke of California by that name, describing it as "Drake's land back of Canada". Another voyage is recorded, that of Sebastian Viscayno, who—in 1602—found and named the Bay of Monterey, but who, like his predecessors, did not venture even a little way inland. After that, for more than a century and a half, Upper California remained unvisited, its Golden Seal still unbroken, forgotten wholly by the civilized world. The Jesuit Missions. Meanwhile, in Lower California, the Church was taking up the task in which the warriors had failed, the task of civilizing the natives and developing the country by colonization. And there is something deeply stirring in this enterprise of the Fathers, an enterprise requiring far more courage than was needed for the first expeditions of discovery. The dreadful loneliness of an untouched land, the actual privations, the unending patience necessary to the winning of the Indians' confidence, the readiness to turn into soldiers the moment these Indians rose in actual revolt—all (Continued on page 4.) Weinstock, Lubin & Co. |