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Great Platte ; thence down that river to its entrance into the 
Missouri. 
Along this track population must go westward. No one 
acquainted with the indolent, mixed race of California, will 
ever believe that they will populate, much less, for any length 
of time, govern the country. The law of Nature which curses 
the mulatto here with a constitution less robust than that of 
either race from which he sprang, lays a similar penalty upon 
the mingling of the Indian and white races in California and 
Mexico. They must fade away; while the mixing of different 
branches of the Caucasian family in the States will continue 
to produce a race of men, who will enlarge from period to pe¬ 
riod the field of their industry and civil domination, until not 
only the Northern States of Mexico, but the Californias also, 
will open their glebe to the pressure of its unconquered arm. 
The old Saxon blood must stride the continent, must command 
all its northern shores, must here press the grape and the olive, 
here eat the orange and fig, and in their own unaided might, 
erect the altar of civil and religious freedom on the plains of 
the Californias. 
Mazatlan ; we anchored in the roads, and having passed a 
day and two nights with Mr. Parrot, our worthy consul, and 
another American who was addicted to aristocracy and smug¬ 
gling, we bade adieu to Captain Paty and his Don Quixote, 
to Messrs. Johnson and Chamberlain, and sailed for San Bias 
in the schooner Gertrudes, formerly the Honduras of the 
Hawaiian Isles. On the sixteenth we anchored alongside the 
prison-ship in the roads of San Bias, and had the pleasure of 
knowing that none of our countrymen had perished on the 
passage. They had suffered greatly from thirst and hunger ; 
but they lived ; and that to us and to them was cause of the 
deepest gratitude. Forty-six Americans and Britons in 
chains!—in the chains of Californian Spaniards ! Will not 
the day come when vengeance will be repaid 1 
During the afternoon and the night following day we rode 
sixty miles to the city ofTepic, and laid the case of these pris~ 
