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Updated: May 9, 2025
The call was repeated from the veranda. After a moment's pause there was the sound of retreating footsteps, and all was quiet again. "Why, for goodness' sake, didn't you answer, Yerba?" asked the shorter girl. "Oh, I hate him!" responded Yerba. "He only wanted to bore me with his stupid, formal, sham-parental talk.
Behind this point is the little harbor, or bight, called Yerba Buena, in which trading-vessels anchor, and, near it, the Mission of Dolores. There was no other habitation on this side of the Bay, except a shanty of rough boards put up by a man named Richardson, who was doing a little trading between the vessels and the Indians.
It appeared that Mr. Woods had invited certain of his neighbors among them a Judge Baker and his wife, and Don Caesar Briones, of the adjacent Rancho of Los Pajaros, and his sister, the Dona Anna. Milly and Yerba had not yet appeared.
On our way down the bay the wind was so strong, as we approached the Columbus, that we had to take refuge behind Yerba Buena Island, then called Goat Island, where we landed, and I killed a gray seal.
I had occasion to make several trips to Yerba Buena and back, and in the spring of 1848 Colonel Mason and I went down to Santa Barbara in the sloop-of-war Dale. I spent much time in hunting deer and bear in the mountains back of the Carmel Mission, and ducks and geese in the plains of the Salinas.
You two poor young things taking care of each other, for of course there were no women here in those days." "Of course there WERE women here" interrupted Yerba, quickly, with a half-meaning, half-interrogative glance at Paul that made him instinctively uneasy. "You later comers" to Milly "always seem to think that there was nothing here before you!"
Oh, do tell me all about him!" flashed out Yerba, suddenly, with clasped hands and eager girlish breath. Paul cast a quick grateful glance at the girl. Whether assumed or not, her enthusiastic outburst was effective. The Mayor looked uneasily at Woods, and turned to Paul. "Ah, yes! You and he are original co-trustees. I believe Pendleton is in reduced circumstances.
Why, my dear, they change every election; I've had seven of them, all more or less of this kind, since I can remember." "But I thought there were two others, dear, that were not official," said her companion, coaxingly. Yerba sighed. "No; there was another, who was president of a bank, but that was also to be official if he died.
The Spanish rancheros had all withdrawn to the seclusion of their holdings and were on the verge of war against the new authorities of Yerba Buena.
Old Sutter's embarcadero became Sacramento City, simply because it was the first point used for unloading boats for Sutter's Fort, just as the site for San Francisco was fixed by the use of Yerba Buena as the hide-landing for the Mission of "San Francisco de Asis."
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