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onterey but did find the Golden Gate - ~eBay of M.ontere7 l ater being f

t.ound by a second overland 111Xped1t1on under Portola.'s leadership).
The entire proposition was simply one ot adding Upper Oal1tol'Jlia

to the t erritory under the Spanish Flag in the cheapest possible ma:nner.

liothi:ag could be cheaper than all owing a handful of Franciscan Friars,

with a Corporals Guard of 8penish Soldiers, to subdue a tremendous

territory by peaoe:tul~V est&bliehine; a Olla.in of llissions. Rad the

Br, s been wiped Otrt b: hostile lndians, a 'hing that frequently

lf the Friars were

suooessfUl, tliey would ohes.t the clutching claws of the Ruasi":'1ll ~ear,

alreadj r, aching dovm. tro1n ·:he .North to acquire more territory. !.alia

~edi ti0n, o:r an:,- one else, to:r t at matter, ha.EP ned to come into the

.I.ii. tle Santa Olar Valley at lmt :particular date.

--.. .n:,..;.:;first C:,:D ) Of white men to ant r the_ Valley of the Little

wer such men as · vera, Commandtlll.te cf California from

Gove.nor, in 1782. Ortega, diaeove er of the Golden Gate, founder of the
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Fl~eei.dio of ~auta .Barbara, wl i• l th men 111 the rallks included, l?edro

Am or, Alv·,r·-do, Jose iunm.d.o Carrillo_, Xorl>a de Cota. Oliveras,

of the _proroinont Cali.f:-,r.nia:n £anil es. .t:ather Ores i, was the Padre

~ttachod to the e.x.pE..~tion. (It.~ oustoij. of .i'ranciacan, of J• uit

i"he na ed Indians nm t have ·been higl'Jly startled to see the

-peclition climbing down the Iudian Tr il trom the Bout.h, espeoially it

mu.ls and horses were along, for those mumals were not n tive to the

1 leiil. lie1 ther was clothing, al tho the tribes dO\Vll near venturli. wore

ga:r.ments ot skins, but the Spmuarde wore a sleeveless Jacket made of