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September Specials on Home Solar Panels
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Solar Panel Installation)
Thu Sep 1 08:56:05 2016
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:33:34 -0400
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<p>September Specials on Home Solar Panels<br /> lifted his voice in der=
ision, while the young friar, a recruit at the Mission, and far from enamor=
ed of his task, strained at the rope, and an Indian pelted the hindquarters=
with stones. Suddenly, the mule flung out his heels, the enemy in the rear=
sprawled, the rope flew loose, the beast with a loud bray fled toward the =
willows of Dolores. But the young priest was both agile and angry. With a f=
lying leap he reached the heaving back. The mule acknowl- edged himself con=
quered. The body-guard trotted on their own feet, and the party disappeared=
round a bend of the hills. Rezanov laughed heartily and even the glum vis-=
age of Father Abella relaxed. " It is a common sight, Excellency,&quo=
t; he said. " We are thankful to have a younger friar for such fatigui=
ng work. Many a time have I belabored stubborn mules and bestrode bucking m=
ustangs while searching for one of these ungrateful but no doubt chosen cre=
atures. It is the will of God, and we make no complaint; but we are very wi=
lling, Father Landaeta and I, that youth should cool its ardor in so certai=
n a fashion while we attend to the more reasonable duties at home." Th=
ey were dismounted at the door of the church. The horses were led off by wa=
iting Indians. The soldiers on guard saluted and stepped aside, and the par=
ty entered. Two priests in handsome vest- ments stood before the altar, but=
the long dim nave was empty. The Russians had been told that a mass would =
be said in their honor, and they marched down the church and bent their kne=
es with as much ceremony as had they been of the faith of their hosts. When=
the short mass was over, Rezanov bethought himself of Concha' s re- quest,=
and whispering its purport to Father Abella was led to a double iron hoop =
stuck with tallow dips in various stages of petition. Rezanov lit a candle =
and fastened it in an empty socket. Then with a whimsical twist of his mout=
h he lit and adjusted another. " No doubt she has some fervent wish, l=
ike all children," he thought apologetically. " And whether this =
will help her to realize it or not, at least it will be interesting to watc=
h her eyes--and mouth-- when I tell her. Will she melt, or flash, or receiv=
e my offering at her shrine as a matter of course? I' ll surprise her to-ni=
ght in the middle of a dance." He deposited a gold piece among the can=
dles on the table and followed Father Abella through a side door. A corrido=
r ran behind the long line of rooms designed not only for priests but for t=
ravellers al- ways sure of a welcome at these hospitable Mis- sions. Father=
Abella shuffled ahead, halted on the threshold of a large room, and ceremo=
niously in- vited his guests to enter. Two other priests stood before a tab=
le set with wine and delicate confec- tions, their hands concealed in their=
wide brown sleeves, but their unmatched physiognomies--the one lean and jo=
vial, the other plump and resigned-- alight with the same smile of welcome.=
Father Abella mentioned them as his coadjutor Father Martin Landaeta, and =
their guest Father Jose Uria of San Jose; and then the three, with the scan=
t rites of genuine hospitality, applied themselves to the tick- ling of pal=
ates long unused to ambrosial living. Re- sponding ingenuously to the glow =
of their home- made wines, they begged Rezanov to accept the Mis- sion, bur=
n it, plunder it, above all, to plan his own day. " I hope that I am t=
o see every detail of your great work," replied the diplomatic guest o=
f honor. " But at your own leisure. Meanwhile, I beg that you will ord=
er one of your Indians to bring in the little presents I venture to offer a=
s a token of my respect. You may have heard that the presents of his Im- pe=
rial Majesty were refused by the Mikado of Japan. I reserved many of them f=
or possible use in our own possessions, particularly a piece of cloth of go=
ld. This I had intended for our church at New Archangel, but finding the pr=
iests there more in need of punishment than reward, I concluded to bring it=
here and offer it as a manifest of my ad- miration for what the great Fran=
ciscan Order of the Most Holy Church of Rome has accomplished in the Califo=
rnias. Have I been too presump- tuous?" The priests all wore the eager=
expressions of chil- dren. " Could we not see them first?" asked=
Father Lan- daeta of his superior; and Father Abella sent a ser- vant with=
an order to unload the horse and bring in the presents. Not a vestige of r=
eserve lingered. Priests and guests sat about the table eating and drinking=
and chatting as were they old friends reunited, and Rezanov extracted much=
of the information he de- sired. The white population--" gente de raz=
on" -- of Alta California, the peculiar province of the Franciscans--t=
he Jesuits having been the first to invade Baja California, and with little=
success-- numbered about two thousand, the Christianized Indians about twe=
nty thousand. There were nine- teen Missions and four Presidial districts--=
San Diego, close to the border of Baja California, Santa Barbara, Monterey,=
and San Francisco. Each Mis- sion had an immense grant of land, or rancho-=
- generally fifteen miles square--for the raising of live stock, agricultur=
al necessities, and the grape. At the Presidio of San Francisco there were =
some seventy men, including invalids; and the number varied little at the o=
ther military centres, Rezanov inferred, although there was a natural effor=
t to im- press the foreigner with the casual inferiority of the armed force=
within his ken. Cattle and horses increased so rapidly that every few year=
s there was a wholesale slaughter, although the agricultural yield was enor=
mous. What the Missions were un- able to manufacture was sent them from Mex=
ico, and disposed of the small salaries of the priests; the " Pious Fu=
nd of California" in the city of Mexico being systematically embezzled=
The first Presidio and Mission were founded at San Diego in July of 1769;=
the last at San Francisco in Sep- tember and October of 1776. Rezanov' s p=
olite interest in the virgin country was cut short by the entrance of two I=
ndians carry- ing heavy bundles, which they opened upon the floor without f=
urther delay. The cloth of gold was magnificent, and the padres handled it =
as rapturously as had their souls and fin- gers been of the sex symbolized =
while exalted by the essence of maternity, in whose service it would be ano=
inted. Rezanov looked on with an amused sigh, yet conscious of being more c=
omprehending and sympathetic than if he had journeyed straight from Europe =
to California. It was not the first time he had felt a passing gratitude fo=
r his uncomfort- able but illuminating sojourn so close to the springs of n=
ature. The priests were as well pleased with the pieces of fine English clo=
th; and as their own homespun robes rasped like hair shirts, they silently =
but uni- formly congratulated themselves that the color was brown. Father A=
bella turned to Rezanov, his saturnine features relaxed. " We are deep=
ly grateful to your excellency, and our prayers shall follow you always. Ne=
ver have we received presents so timely and so magnificent. And be sure we =
shall not forget the brave officers that have brought you safely to our dis=
tant shores, nor the distinguished scholar who guards your ex- cellency' s =
health." He turned to Langsdorff and repeated himself in Latin. The na=
turalist, whose sharp nose was always lifted as if in protest against overs=
ight and ready to pounce upon and penetrate the least of mysteries, bowed w=
ith his hand on his heart, and translated for the benefit of the officers. =
" Humph!" said Davidov in Russian. " Much the Chamberlain wi=
ll care for the prayers of the Cath- olic Church if he has to go home with =
his cargo. But he has a fine opportunity here for the display of his diplom=
atic talents. I fancy they will avail him more than they did at Nagasaki--w=
here I am told he swore more than once when he should have kow- towed and g=
rinned." " I shouldn' t like to see him grin," replied Khos-=
tov, as they finally started for the outbuildings. " If he could go a=
s far as that he would be the most terrible man living. Were it not for the=
fire in him that melts the iron just so often he would be crafty and cruel=
instead of subtle and firm. He is a for- tunate man! There were many fairi=
es at his cradle! I have always envied him, and now he is going to win that=
beautiful Dona Concha. She will look at none of us." " We will d=
oubtless meet others as beautiful at the ball to-night," said Davidov =
philosophically. " You are not in love with a girl who has barely spok=
en to you, I suppose." " She had almost given me a rose this morn=
ing, when Rezanov, who was flattering the good Dona Ignacia with a moment o=
f his attention, turned too soon. I might have been air. She looked straigh=
t through me. Such eyes! Such teeth! Such a form! She is the most enchantin=
g girl I have ever seen. And he will monopolize her without troubling to no=
tice whether we even admire her or not. Pray heaven he does not break her h=
eart." " He is honorable. One must admit that, if he does fancy h=
is own will was a personal gift from the Almighty. Perhaps she will break h=
is. I never saw a more accomplished flirt." " I know women,"=
replied the shrewder Khos- tov. When men like Rezanov make an effort to pl=
ease--" He shrugged his shoulders. " Some men are the offspring o=
f Mars and Venus and most of us are not. We can at least be philosophers. L=
et us hope the dinner will be excellent." VII It proved to be the most=
delicate and savory repast that had excited their appetites this side of E=
urope. The friars had their consolations, and even Dona Ignacia Arguello wa=
s less gastronomic than Father Landaeta. Rezanov, whose epicurianism had su=
r- vived a year of dried fish and the coarse luxuries of his managers, sudd=
enly saw all life in the light of the humorist, and told so many amusing ve=
rsions of his adventures in the wilderness, and even of his misadventure wi=
th Japan, that the priests choked over their wine, and Langsdorff, who had =
not a grain of humor, swelled with pride in his chance relationship to a ma=
n who seemed able to manip- ulate every string in the human network. "=
He will succeed," he said to Davidov. " He will succeed. I almos=
t hoped he would not, he is so in- different--I might almost say so hostile=
--to my own scientific adventures. But when he is in this mood, when those =
cold eyes brim with laughter and ordinary humanity, I am nothing better tha=
n his slave." Rezanov, in reply to an entreaty from Father Uria to tel=
l them more of his mission and of the strange picture-book country they had=
never hoped to hear of at first hand, assumed a tone of great frankness an=
d intimacy. " We were, with astound- ing cleverness, treated from the =
first like an audi- ence in a new theatre. After we had solemnly been towed=
by a string of boats to anchor, under the Papen mountains, all Nagasaki ap=
peared to turn out, men, women and children. Thousands of little boats, dec=
orated with flags by day and colored lan- terns by night, and filled with p=
eople in gala attire, swarmed about us, gazed at us through telescopes, wer=
e so thick on the bay one could have traversed it on foot. The imperial sai=
lors were distinguished by their uniforms of a large blue and white check, =
suggesting the pinafores of a brobdingnagian baby. The barges of the imperi=
al princes were covered with blue and white awnings and towed to the sound =
of kettledrums and the loud measured cries of the boatmen. At night the tho=
usands of illuminated lanterns, of every color and shade, the waving of fan=
s, the incessant chattering, and the more har- monious noise that rose unce=
asingly above, made up a scene as brilliant as it was juvenile and absurd. =
In the daytime it was more interesting, with the background of hills cultiv=
ated to their crests in the form of terraces, varied with rice fields, haml=
ets, groves, and paper villas encircled with little gardens as glowing and =
various of color as the night lan- terns. When, at last, I was graciously p=
ermitted to have a residence on a point of land called Megasaki, I was conv=
eyed thither in the pleasure barge of the Prince of Fisi. There was place f=
or sixty oarsmen, but as one of the few tokens of respect, I was en- abled =
to record for the comfort of the mighty sov- ereign whose representative I =
was, the barge was towed by a long line of boats, decorated with flags, the=
voices of the rowers rising and falling in meas- ured cadence as they anno=
unced to all Japan the honor about to be conferred upon her. I sat on a cha=
ir of state in the central compartment of the barge, and quite alone; my su=
ite standing on a raised deck beyond. Before me on a table, mar- vellously =
inlaid, were my credentials. I was sur- rounded by curtains of sky-blue sil=
k and panels of polished lacquer inwrought with the Imperial arms in gold. =
The awning of blue and white silk was lined with a delicate and beautiful t=
apestry, and the reverse sides of the silken partitions were of canvas pain=
ted by the masters of the country. The pol- ished floor was covered by a ma=
gnificent carpet woven with alarming dragons whose jaws pointed directly at=
my chair of state. And such an escort and such a reception, both of ceremo=
ny and of curiosity, no Russian had ever boasted before. Flags waved, kettl=
edrums beat, fans were flung into my very lap to autograph. The bay, the hi=
lls, were a blaze of color and a confusion of sound. The barracks were hung=
with tapestries and gay silks. I, with my arms folded and in full uniform,=
my fea- tures composed to the impassivity of one of their own wooden gods,=
was the central figure of this magnificent farce; and it may be placed to =
the ever- lasting credit of the discipline of courts that not one of my sta=
ff smiled. They stood with their arms folded and their eyes on the inlaid d=
evices at their feet. " When this first act was over and I was locked =
in for the night and felt myself able to kick my way through the flimsy wal=
ls, yet as completely a pris- oner as if they had been of stone, I will con=
fess that I fell into a most undiplomatical rage; and when I found myself p=
layed with from month to month by a people I scorned as a grotesque mix- tu=
re of barbarian and mannikin, I was alternately infuriated, and consumed wi=
th laughter at the van- ity of men and nations." His voice dropped fro=
m its light ironical note, and became harsh and abrupt with reminiscent dis=
- gust. " And the end of it all was failure. The superb presents of th=
e Tsar were rejected. These presents: coats of black fox and ermine, vases =
of fossil ivory and of marble, muskets, pistols, sabers, magnificent lustre=
s, table services of crystal and porcelain, tapestries and carpets, immense=
mirrors, a clock in the form of an elephant, and set with precious stones,=
a portrait of the Tsar by Madame le Brun, damasks, furs, velvets, printed =
cotton, cloths, brocades of gold and silver, microscopes, gold and silver w=
atches, a complete electrical ma- chine--presents in all, of the value of t=
hree hundred thousand roubles, were returned with scant cere- mony to the N=
adeshda and I was politely told to leave. " But the mortification was =
the least of my wor- ries. The object of the embassy was to establish not o=
nly good will and friendship between Russia and Japan, for which we cared l=
ittle, but commercial intercourse between this fertile country and our nort=
heastern and barren possessions. It would have been greatly to the advantag=
e of the Japanese, and God knows it would have meant much to us." Then=
Rezanov having tickled the imaginations and delighted the curiosity of the=
priests, began to play upon their heartstrings. His own voice vibrated as =
he related the sufferings of the servants of the Company, and while avoidin=
g the nomen- clature and details of their bodily afflictions, gave so thril=
ling a hint of their terrible condition that his audience gasped with sympa=
thy while experiencing no qualms in their own more fortunate stomachs. He l=
ed their disarmed understandings as far down the vale of tears as he deemed=
wise, then per- mitted himself a magnificent burst of spontaneity. " =
I must tell you the object of my mission to California, my kind friends!&qu=
ot; he cried, " although I beg you will not betray me to the other pow=
ers until I think it wise to speak myself. But I must have your sympathy an=
d advice. It has long been my desire to establish relations between Russia =
and Spain that should be of mutual benefit to the col- onies of both in thi=
s part of the western hemis- phere. I have told you of the horrible conditi=
on and needs of my men. They must have a share in the superfluities of this=
most prodigal land. But I make no appeal to your mercy. Trade is not found=
ed on charity. You well know we have much you are in daily need of. There s=
hould be a bi- yearly interchange." He paused and looked from one star=
ing face to the other. He had been wise in his appeal. They were deeply gra=
tified at being taken into his confidence and virtually asked to out- wit t=
he military authorities they detested. Rezanov continued: " I have bro=
ught the Juno heavy laden, my fathers, and for the deliberate purpose of ba=
rter. She is full of Russian and Boston goods. I shall do my utmost to pers=
uade your Governor to give me of his corn and other farinaceous foods in ex=
- change. It may be against your laws, and I am well aware that for the tre=
aty I must wait, but I beg you in the name of humanity to point out to his =
ex- cellency a way in which he can at the same time relieve our necessities=
and placate his conscience." " We will! We will!" cried Fat=
her Abella. " Would that you had come in the disguise of a common sea-=
captain, for we have hoodwinked the commandantes more than once. But aside =
from the suspicion and distrust in which Spain holds Russia --with so disti=
nguished a visitor as your excellency, it would be impossible to traffic un=
detected. But there must be a way out. There shall be! And will your excell=
ency kindly let us see the cargo? I am sure there is much we sadly need: cl=
oth, linen, cot- ton, boots, shoes, casks, bottles, glasses, plates, shears=
, axes, implements of husbandry, saws, sheep- shears, iron wares--have you =
any of these things, Excellency?" " All and more. Will you come t=
o-morrow?" " We will! and one way or another they shall be ours a=
nd you shall have breadstuffs for your pitiable subjects. We have as much n=
eed of Europe as you can have of California, for Mexico is dilatory and oft=
en disregards our orders altogether. One way or another--we have your promi=
se, Excellency?" " I shall not leave California without accomplis=
h- ing what I came for," said Rezanov.</p>=20
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