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Excerpt from Father Escobar's Relation of the Onate Expedition to California, Vol. 5
We traveled ten or twelve leagues along the banks of this river to its source? And having journeyed from there almost sixteen leagues west, we came to ano ther river, which was called San Andres 34 because it was discovered on that day. It runs toward the west between the high and very rough ranges, which are bare and without vegetation, all being almost bald rock. This may be due to the heat Of the summer, which, judging from the appearance of the country, is great. Ordinarily the river does not carry water, except for short distances, where it bursts or gushes out from the sand, although it shows signs Of great freshets.36 From this river onward the country has a different climate, for it does not snow and has no manner Of cold, nor did we feel any, although it was midwinter, being in the month Of December. Traveling along this river, almost always in its bed, for its banks were almost all Of rocky cliffs, we arrived, after traveling twenty leagues}:6 at another river. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
