872 Recent Literature. [October, 
did not contemplate or in any proper sense regard the progress 
of true civilization” (p. 508). : 
In 1787 the two Californias had become united with Sonora, 
New Mexico and New Vizcaya into a “ comandancia jeneral” of 
the “four internal provinces of the West;” the governors re- 
moved from Loreto to Monterey. The biographic sketches pre- 
sented of each of the governors from 1767 to 1820 are highly 
interesting, and gives us a curious insight into Californian social 
ife as it was a century ago; they were Portola, Barri, de Neve, 
Fages, Romeu, Arrillaga, Borica, Arrillaga again, Arguello the 
Elder, and Sola, whose rule was ended by the war of Mexican 
independence. 
-The three concluding sections of Vol. 1 are devoted to the 
passive element in the great drama of colonial history (in which 
the gente de razón seemed to be the only motors); the Indians, 
their exterior, customs and manners, settlements and languages. 
No classification of them after scientific (racial or linguistic) 
principles was attempted, although we have had dates enough to 
do this for the last ten years; but a profusion of ethnographic 
details gives a graphic idea of what the Indians were in those 
times. In the description of their mythology too much promi- 
nence is given to Father Boscana’s report, whose tribe at San 
Juan Capistrano, on the coast, formed a small portion of the 
aborigines only, and is by no means typical, for the Shoshoni 
race to which they pertain is an intrusive people coming from the 
“Interior Basin” (Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming). Among 
a the old and real Californian Indians we have to count the Yuki, 
= Wintún, Maidu, Mutsun, San Antonio and Yókats tribes; on the 
northern State border the Hupa, Lassic and Sayar are intruders 
Meo ee R vere - d thus 
i also. A historian cannot be a specialist in everything, ana ta! 
we can condone such misstatements on Indians as we find in 
e second volume begins with the administration of a 4 
_ country under the republican Mexican governors. Their nam 4 
were as follows: Arguello the Younger, Echeandia, Victor! 
ms rado Micheltorena, Pio Pico again. Then follows the Amen 
conquest of the country in 1846, and the pressure of sb od ES 
consequent upon it. The chief actors in this new process a hie 
n 
“he _momentous results of Marshall's gold discove Ye thal - 
ma, in January, 1848, did not follow immediately see a 
34); it was not before March 25 that a P see. 
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