The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-30
IN MEXICAN WATERS.
The Herald's Correspondent on
the San Diego Bay.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S POLICY
The Foreigners in Lower California and the
investments they are Making
Punta Bunda.

OK BOARD THE STEAMSHIP NEWBERN.
May 20, 1S89.-[ Special Correspondence OF
THE HERALD The feelings of that ad-
venturous mariner, Juan Rodriguez Cab
rillo when he sailed these then newly dis
covered waters three centuries and half
ago, found an echo il your correspondents
breast when shc boarded the shaky little
steamer that was 20 bear her over strange
waters, into re gions comparatively unknown
to the world at Ia &c. Just 34I years since
the Portuguese navigator discovered the
beautiful bay, which he christened San
Diego after his spiritual patron, Saint
r James; and a morning in the middle of last
winter when l saileI out Of it-bound as he
was, for voyage around the long and
narrow peninsula, which from that day to
this, till within the list four years, has re
NAMED literal terra incJgni a
A boy with Dell and d steutorian voice
rushed up and down the decks, ringing
with might and main, and shouting, ''All
ashore nos going down belOw''-the ambig-
uous sentence referring 10 the southwark
journey, not 10 the hold or
THE INTERNAL REGIONS.
There were nasty haud-shailes, a sound of
kisses like the smOthered popping of
champagne cOrks, q burrying OF feet and a
cloud of petticoats tiuttering over the gang
plank, chorus OF GdiOS and goodbye,
waving handkePchiefs from shore and ship,
a few tears falling here and there and we
were at sea again, with the land fading
rapidly from view.
Midwinter at the north but summer in
these trOpic seas-the sky like ceiling of
goblin tapestry under creamy lace work
of Cloud the smooth water. true to its
early name, PGcifcO. Pickering with gray
lights ana green shadows; and a jolly cOiu
pany on board, as gay and comfortable in
the sweet sunshine and crisp salt air as if
the few boards between themselves and
bottomleSS abys5cS were lndeSuucta5le.
and storm and sickness and shipwrecll out
the CHASTITY phantasmag0ria OF dreams.
Viewed from a distance in the light OF
early morning. the city of San Diego looks
like the picture Of an oriental metropolis.
with its palms and flowers in front and
background OF mesa lands and majestic
mountains, and the immense Hotel del Cor
onada upon the adjacent island, shining in
the sun Ike Whitley walled mosque On the
banks Of the Ganges or the GodaVerE.
Then comes Point Iona, SUI wrapped
in a veil OF mist. showing only his tall
light house, lifting 4 white lantern ~ feet
above the level OF the sea. The boundary
line between the Unit I'd States and Mexico
is marked by an ObelSE OF white marble.
rising twenty feet above its lofty pedestal.
1t stands on what the sailors now call Mon
umental Point, a low table land near the
edge of the bluff, three hundred yards or
more from the beech bat plainly visible
from the decks Of passing vessels. The
United States coast u 'Tey OF 1871 de
termined its geographical position, as lati-
tude ~ dec - mn. IS sec, ~ north.
Longitude III deg. min. 81 sec, 81 vest
and ten mlIes 81. uhNosV from Iona light
house. This monument also marks the
northern initial point O tn It valuable sur
vey, called ''cOastof Aelicy. from its north
ern boundary to Cape orr cntes. including
the GUT OF California made by Com
mander George DeneY, OF the United States
steamship Narra@ansett. By the way, it
IS HnrthN of remark rha. al Nassels. MeEi-