The pretty lawn on which it stands, as green as sun and
rain could make it; the pine wood on the south; the small river on the
north side; the houses, with their white plastered sides and red-tiled
roofs, dotted about on the green; the low, white presidio, with its
soiled, flying, and the discordant din of drums and trumpets for the
noon parade; all brought up the scene we had witnessed here with so
much pleasure nearly a year before, when coming from a long voyage,
and our unprepossessing reception at Santa Barbara. It seemed almost
like coming to a home.
CHAPTER XXVII
THE SUNDAY WASH-UP--ON SHORE--A SET-TO--A GRANDEE--"SAIL HO!"--A
FANDANGO
The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark,
from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we found to be
Quakers,) and having on board the ex-governor, who was going in her to
Mazatlan, and thence overland to Vera Cruz. He offered to take
letters, and deliver them to the American consul at Vera Cruz,
whence they could be easily forwarded to the United States. We
accordingly made up a packet of letters, almost every one writing, and
dating them "January 1st, 1836.
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