Vol. I. 
San Diego, California, March, 1885. 
A ee the Pustke Coase { PUBLISHED MonTHLy By C, R. Orcurr. { 
for the Pacific Coast. 
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ter at San Diego Post-office 
BEAUTY. 
MRS. C. K. SMITH. 
There’s beauty in the virgin spring, 
When in the wood she weivis her bowers; 
There’s beauty where the wild birds sing, 
And echoes start among the flowers. 
There’s beauty in the pine-clad mount, 
Where zephyrs sigh and tempests fall; 
There’s beauty in the gushing fount, 
Where Heaven’s arch is over all. 
There’s beauty in the humble flower, 
In meadow, grove or green hill side; 
A beauty of enticing power, 
Wherever lovely flowers abide. 
There’s beauty in the silver moon, 
The twinkling stars that shine by night; 
That on our world lock mildly down 
And glad us with their mellow light. 
There’s a bcauty which never dies, 
A baauty of the rarest kind; 
It claims its kindred in the skies, 
1t is the beauty of the mind. 
When this in kindness, truth and love, 
Beams forth upon mankind, 
We own its source is from mankind. 
And feel its power divine. 
San Dreco, February 138, 1885. 
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THE PERICUE INDIANS. 
BY L. BELDING. 
Probably these Indians were 
never numerous though the Vic- 
toria mountains would have sup- 
ported a large population. 
Fathe: Daegut says there were 
4,000 Indians in the sout’ ern part 
of the peninsula of Lower Califor- 
nia when the missions of Santiago 
and San Jose del Cabo were de- 
stroyed by them in the year 1734, 
but that they numbered only 400 
in 1772 (Chas. Rau, Sm. Rp. 1864 
p 084) 
It was a prime object with my 
companion Dr. H. Ten Kate, of the 
society of anthropology of Paris, 
and myself as well, to find a livy- 
ing representative of the original 
Lower Californian, which we 
probably found on the Rancho 
San Jacinto, owned by the Valle- 
rino family. But we could get no 
positive or definite information 
concerning this Indian woman, 
who must have been about seven- 
ty-five years old, although from 
La Paz to Cape San Lucas she was 
universally reputed to be a pure 
blooded Indian. She differed 
widely from the Yaquis and other 
Indians from the east side of the 
Gulf, being of good stature, ro- 
bust form and dark complexion, 
with a cranium which resembled 
those found in the caves. 
Dr. H. Ten Kate offered to pho- 
tograph the hacienda and _ its oc- 
cupants, hoping by this means to 
get her photograph, but his dip- 
lomacy failed, although backed 
by our distinguished guide, Don 
Juan Dios Angoula, who had long 
been a friend of the family. 
We saw three of her children 
who were good examples of the 
