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Updated: June 13, 2025
The few boulders that had marked the summer ford at Simpson's Crossing were obliterated by a vast sheet of water stretching to the foothills. The up stage was stopped at Grangers; the last mail had been abandoned in the tules, the rider swimming for his life. "An area," remarked the "Sierra Avalanche," with pensive local pride, "as large as the State of Massachusetts is now under water."
At this time the atmosphere is smoky with forest fires and the burning of the tules in the Sacramento and other interior valleys, hence our view is not a clear one. It did not take us long to reach the old stage-station in the Little American Valley.
Harcourt was a pretty name for a street, a square, or a hotel; even the few in Sidon who had called it Harkutt admitted that it was an improvement quite consistent with the change from the fever-haunted tules and sedges of the creek to the broad, level, and handsome squares of Tasajara City.
There were about 140 neophytes transferred at first, and by the end of 1820 the number had increased to 590. In 1818 a composite building, including church, priest's house, and all the apartments required, was erected. It was of adobe, 87 feet long, 42 feet wide, and 18 feet high, and had a corridor of tules.
Together they forgot everything else, and at the end of an hour were only recalled by the presence of a silently admiring concourse of votive-offering friends who had gathered round them. The funeral took place the next day at the grave dug in the public cemetery a green area fenced in by the palisading tules.
The man's eyes narrowed with a curious, ugly look. "Are you deaf?" he said very quietly. A muttered negative came from the child. The question contained a quality of scorn that he felt and resented. "I want to cross the marsh, get to the railway. What's the best way to go?" Tito's arm made a sweeping gesture round the head of the tules. "That. There's a trail. You go round."
They now support themselves chiefly by hunting and fishing, and by cultivating small patches in grain and vegetables. Tide-River Farm, or Agency. The Indians located at this point are the Tules and Manaches, numbering three hundred and seventy-four.
The sailor grunted, and passed us a dipper. We bailed her out while he raised again the peak of his sail. Shortly after this experience we glided up the reaches of a wide beautiful river. It had no banks, but was bordered by the tall reeds called tules. As far as the eye could reach, and that was very far when we climbed part way up the mast to look, these tules extended.
I gave it to him and watched him go off in the direction of the trail that leads to the tules. Of course it would have been an unusual thing for him to have tried to get across them, but he might have done it and stumbled on the cache." "Could he have isn't it all water?" Lorry asked. "There's a good deal of solid land and here and there planks laid across the deeper streams.
They were soon out of the miniature city of the Post, and held on down through the low reach of tules and sand-dunes that stretch between the barracks and the old red fort. "Look, Condy!" said Blix. "What's that building down there on the shore of the bay the one with the flagstaff?" "I think that must be the lifeboat station." "I wonder if we could go down and visit it.
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