2o8 ELDORADO 



CHAPTER XXII. 



LATER HISTORY. 



Very soon after the Spanish yoke was thrown off 

 and Mexican authority estabHshed in California, for- 

 eign vessels began to arrive in its principal ports, es- 

 pecially whalers and traders from the United States, 

 to exchange manufactured goods for hides and tallow 

 furnished by tliQ Mission fathers. As the region grew 

 in population, shipping became more regular and mer- 

 cantile houses were established at various points on the 

 coast. The white portion of the population was re- 

 garded with a jealous eye by the Spanish and Mexican 

 settlers, especially immigrants from and citizenes of 

 the United States. 



About the year 1836 trouble began between the 

 Mexican authorities themselves. Affairs were very 

 much disturbed, and occasionally a revolution broke 

 out. Angel Ramirez, a Mexican, and a chief official in 

 the government, and Juan Alvarado, second official and 

 a Californian of Spanish descent, became involved in a 

 bitter person controversy, and Alvarado, being or- 

 dered under arrest, fled, and sought refuge with one 

 Isaac Graham in the Santa Cruz mountains. Many 

 vears previonslv Craham had crossed the plans and the 



