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Title: Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Bishop, William Henry, 1847-1928
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel California -- Description and travel Arizona -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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, their tentspitched on the borders of Spanishtown. They are Eng-lish, and have come from Australia, dropping their hsall along the way, no doubt, as liberally as here. Theyare like t^^pes of Cruikshank and Dickens. An apple-faced Mrs. Jarley appears in a large velvet bonnet withplumes. A very tightly-dressed, slender individual, witha weed on his hat, might pass for Sam Weller. He isa horse-tamer and jockey. At his heels follows a bellig-erent bull-dog. Behind one of the tents a child of nine,Cassie by name, with line, dark eyes, is making a toiletbefore a bit of cracked mirror. She pastes down her wethair into a semblance of the water-waves of fashiona-ble society. When interrupted with a compliment onthe arrangement she affects displeasure, and tosses it allabroad again with a native coquetry. The Mrs.-Jarley-looking woman is the fortune-teller.She declares that there are persons whose fortunes shewould not tell for twenty—no, not for fifty dollars. VISALIA, BAKEBSFIELD, ETC. 409
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410 OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST PROVINCES. Mine, however, through an especial liking she affects tohave taken to me, and the dulness of trade, she promisesto tell, in the most effective manner, for two dollars only. IV. The possessions of some of the great land-owners areprodigious. It is a favorite story tliat certain ones candrive a herd of cattle from the northern counties of theState to San Diego, its southern limit, and quarter themevery night on their own ground. Haggin, Carr & Tevis,whose property I was privileged to examine in detail,have at Bakersfield four hundred thousand acres nearlyin one body. Much of this was secured for a trifle inthe condition of desert land, and has been redeemed. One ranchman who had acquired a great estate of thiskind chiefly while surveyor-general of the United Stateswas the occasion of drawing forth one of the best horimots of Lincoln. I congratulate you, said our martyred President. You have become monarch of about all you have sur-veyed. The ow

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