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Title: Camp and camino in Lower California; a record of the adventures of the author while exploring peninsular California, Mexico
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: North, Arthur Walbridge
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Publisher: New York, The Baker & Taylor Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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lpless as a child.My heart is aching, aching, but I hear them sleeping, waking;Its the Lure of little Voices; its the mandate of the Wild.Theres a whisper in the night wind, theres a star agleam to guide us.And the wild is calling . . . . let us go. —Service. How can a wanderer withstand such pleadings INow that I write again the year and a half seem good.Neither a shoulder doubly fractured in the Rockies, nor alesser accident in the Arizona canyons count in the summing 9 lo CAMP AND CAMINO IN LOWER CALIFORNIA up. Life is invariably good; provided the trail to the wil-derness lies open. And if these pages can bring to theirreaders—particularly to those who craving the charm of thewilds and the thrill of adventure yet may not wander fromfireside or desk—a share in the keen delight, the rare exhila-ration of the succeeding months of out-door living thereinoutlined, then to the writer this work, though delayed, waswell worth the doing. Arthur W. North.5^// Lake City, March i, igio.
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\ CONTENTS PAGE Foreword . .... . . -7 Authors Preface . . . . . .9 Part I. Terra Incognita CHAPTER I. A Mission and Some Indians . . .17 11. Mountain Sheep ..... 25 III. A Parson, a Wrong Direction and More Indians . . . . . .31 IV. Uncle Sams Lost Province ... 43 V. Wherein I Lose My Parson and Fall In with Seiior Dick . . . -57 VI. The Petroglyph Makers and Southern Indians ... . . .6^ VII. Some Final Missionary Labors and the Sierra Camino Real , . . -75 VIII. Wherein I Bag Mountain Sheep and Meet the Laird ..... 89 IX. With the Laird Along El Camino Real . loi X. The Lost Giilfo Camino and the Cannibal Isle of TIburon . . . .123 XL Into the Antelope Country . . -135 XII. Thirst 149 II 12 CONTENTS Part IL The Widening of the Trail. XIII. Sanlgnacio? The Favored . XIV. Santa Rosalia, a French Municipality in Mexico .... XV. To Loreto! .... XVI. The Pearl Missions of the Jesuits XVII. A Long Forced March . XVIII. La Paz and Some Other Pueblos XIX. The Story of Magdalena Bay. 165 173

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