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"There are two varas of water in the hold." About six feet. Ave Maria added, "In less than forty minutes we shall sink." Where was the leak? They couldn't find it. It was hidden by the water which was filling up the hold. The vessel had a hole in her hull somewhere under the water-line, quite forward in the keel. Impossible to find it impossible to check it.
Upon three sides of the plaza were the house lots, 20 by 40 varas each, fronting on the square. One-half the remaining side was reserved for a guard-house, a town-house, and a public granary. Around the embryo town, a few years later, was built an adobe wall not so much, perhaps, for protection from foreign invasion as from domestic intrusion.
But John worked hard, bought varas in San Francisco whenever he had any spare cash, supplied almost the entire State with olives and olive-oil, and in time became a rich man. And his ideal? Only the Indians had driven it temporarily into the unused chambers of his memory.
The planting is done in the most primitive way, commonly by making a hole in the ground with a machete or by using a forked stick as a plow. There are few hoes, and among the natives no modern steel plows. A "conuco" is usually about one acre in extent, or to be precise twenty-five varas conuqueras square.
Gentlemen, you are required to fence your lots and build a house within a year. The fees for recording and deed will be $3.62, and the terms of payment are a fourth down, the balance in equal payments during a period of eighteen months." "How about the lots that lie south?" cried a voice. "They are one hundred varas square, same terms, same fees," replied Hyde.
"On the mountain, your Reverence, but a few varas from where he attacked you." "How? you saw him then?" asked the Padre in unfeigned astonishment. "Saw him, your Reverence! Mother of God! I should think I did! And your Reverence shall see him too, if he ever comes again within range of Ignacio's arquebus." "What mean you, Ignacio?" said the Padre, sitting bolt-upright in his litter.
For the bronchos had run away, upset the buggy, and had only been stopped by a brave Americano of an ox-team, whose lasso was even now around their necks, to prove it, and who had been dragged a matter of a hundred varas, like a calf, at their heels. The senoritas, ah! had he not already said they were safe, by the mercy of Jesus! picked up by the coach, and would be here at this moment."
In order that the work which the tobacco cultivation requires may not be neglected by the natives, and that they may perform the field work necessary for their sustenance, it is ordered that every two persons working together shall, between them cultivate eight thousand square varas, that is, two and one-half acres of tobacco land.
Peering out through the glass visor of my helmet, I saw fixed on me from low down beside the doorway two inky, moveless eyes as large as saucers. They were not human eyes, nor did they belong to any sea creature I had ever beheld or read of. They were round and fixed, pools of bottomless blackness, staring at me through two varas of clear, swaying water.
It would last three days, Hyde informed his hearers, and 450 lots would be sold. North of the broad street paralleling the Mission Camino lots were sixteen and a half varas wide and fifty varas deep. All were between the limits of low and high water mark. "What's a vara?" shouted a new arrival. "A Spanish yard," explained Hyde, "about thirty-three and a third inches of English measure.
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