The Descendants Of Noriego Had
Taken The Ancestral Name Of De La Guerra, As They Were Nobles Of
Old Spain By Birth; And The Boy Pablo, Who Used To Make Passages
In The Alert, Was Now Don Pablo De La Guerra, A Senator In The
State Legislature For Santa Barbara County.
The points in the country, too, he noticed, as he passed them,
- Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, Point Ań
O Nuevo, the opening
to Monterey, which to my disappointment we did not visit.
No; Monterey, the prettiest town on the coast, and its capital
and seat of customs, had got no advantage from the great changes,
was out of the way of commerce and of the travel to the mines and
great rivers, and was not worth stopping at. Point Conception
we passed in the night, a cheery light gleaming over the waters
from its tar light-house, standing on its outermost peak. Point
Conception! That word was enough to recall all our experiences
and dreads of gales, swept decks, topmast carried away, and the
hardships of a coast service in the winter. But Captain Wilson
tells me that the climate has altered; that the southeasters are
no longer the bane of the coast they once were, and that vessels
now anchor inside the kelp at Santa Barbara and San Pedro all the
year round. I should have thought this owing to his spending his
winters on a rancho instead of the deck of the Ayacucho, had not
the same thing been told me by others.
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