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ived his six-score years and five.
You take the Indian as he is — a wreck and waste of nature, even as this altar of San Carlos is a wreck and waste of art. For twenty cents, laid out in whisky, you may hear the story of his life, and in that tale the romance of his tribe.
A youth when the first Spaniards came to Monterey, Capitan Carlos saw Fray Junipero Serra land his company of friars, Don Jose Rivera land his regiment of troops.
The Spaniards had already built a Mission house at San Diego, and were creeping upward towards the Golden Gate; but no Carmelo Indian had as yet beheld a White man's face.
The fathers raised a cross; the troops unfurled a flag.
A psalm was sung, a cannon fired; rites, as they said, which gave the people to God, the country to the King of Spain.
These strangers built a castle on the hill, above the spot on which they had raised their cross.
They fenced that castle round about with walls, on which they mounted guns, and set a watch by day and n