Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-27

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chaunts and their charnel-house strains,
was listening to the voice Of the half
classic and all sanctitied past; but when
the old party who sang bass. after giving
fresh hitch at his rags and new set to
throat and broke his dreadful, grave
yard voice into a solemn fsisetto my
weak delusion of poetical inspirement
suddenly evaporated, and l got into the
air as soon AS / could, and let myself
laugh. 1 should have suffocated if
hadn't. When my frankness and my
sense of the ludicrous got the better OF
me knew that these old hum5ugs were
funnier than Ephe Horn and vastly
more fantas.ical: for they were the
genuine, serious thing.
I went out from the church with the
padre and Looked at his lennon trees
and his fig trees (the latter two feet
through the trunk and the other things
in the old courtyard of the Mission;
and then by invitation into his private
room where are many curious old black
letter Spanish books ani-a ctaIt-like
portrait of JEFF Davis and his Generals
day Illuminated with blue and green
and yellow pigments and labelled - our
heroes
Lately I have READ L statement made
b. New Bedford Whaling captain TO
the effect that il WAS Il rare thing to find
4 whale whose length WAS more than
sixty feet; and that IL all his experience
he mad never seen one more than seventy
five or eighty feet in length. This state
meEt has been given AMI received in the
world. and the VOL! where
natural history IS studied and old fash
ioned fish stories are doubted, as author
..ative and exploding certain extravagant
and wild notions concerning the size of
the leviathans of the deep. Now Wit
cess the truth of history: Some eight |
sears ago there game on shore at San
the dead holy Of right |
whale whose extreme length, from nose (
10 tail, was just precisely one hundred |
md two feet. Mr.. Walter Chaffee. a |
equitable merchant Of San Buenaven-
ura, and the first man to pu; his hand |
Upon that vast carcase. told me this |
of his wha,eships great /
eEg.h. He further told me that this |
whale was sixteen feet IL hight |
.boys the sands of the beach. There |
we're evidences of foul play upon this
,reat corpse-evidences that his untime-
y death had been caused by the havoc
PRODUCED in his mortal parts by what
he whalenen call "a bomb lance" The
aw bones of this huge whale lean up,
ven now, against the porch Of an adobe
louse on the main street of San Buena-
entura; and they each measure Just
twenty-five feet and six inches from ex-
49, 60 A~k~ |
en- feet is the greatest recorded length
f any other whale, 1 believe-so that
his prize Of ''hotsam and jutsam" is
My second to the biggest whale Of
which there is any credible account. 1
an swear to the size of his '.inferior
naxillary bones;" and 1 implicitly be-
ieve the account of his general dimen-
ions as given by my friend Chaffee.
Ths Ojai is splendid bit of upland.
he Oaks as disposed like the trees of a
ark and the general look of the fields
nd hills ami surroundings is very like
he scenery of the Livermore Pass. The
.retcles Of sun-batLed plains remind
lie of the coffee lands of Central Amer
.. 1t is in the Ojai that the invalid
hose lungs are too weak for the coast
lr finds the healing balm, of dry sun
sht, cool nights and health giving
reezes. Many cures of consumptives
re quoted. l interviewed jocose and
old fellow who owned to being
native of the Old North State, and
no, for about q year has sojourned up
n this part of the Pacific Slope and
orked a. his bushes. of blacksmithins.
lie came, he said, about fourteen months :
go from Illinois and was very near used
p, voiceless, (Which must have been
,arful affection to him) and one lung
AMI the other futteripg. In
month after he had been ''toted up
lar" be was able to chop stick of fire
ooi and ''holler ike an Injun."
inspect that in his Old home on Sugar
reek, IN the Land OF Egypt. he had
al III opportunity TO talk much, and
al improved IT.; and that ali he needed ,,
as quiet, retired place and rest for
is tired talking apparatus. Anyhow,
,ere he is, very live and jolly son of
u!can, and he has staked off q piece of /,
is farm for the future town OF Ojsi;
nd he says he Will give away every
her lot to any who viii come and settle :
.ere. The lots are big; the streets are
ide; the lands are beautiful; water can
, had at fourteen feet for the digging; .
Id there is Mr. Lorenzo Don Roberts,