At the Rancho Tejemanil, I offered a boy a centavo for bringing me a cup of cold water.
At Rancho Nuevo we found ourselves preceded by an aristocratic company of ladies and gentlemen from the distant region of La Union, near the Pacific,--three senores and two senoras, with a number of Indian attendants.
Rancho Nuevo, and entered through the big white wall into an extensive courtyard.
At theRancho Nuevo, the Spanish-Indian ladies of the kitchen promised us boiled chicken with our rice for the midday meal.
By nine o'clock we crossed again the river La Playa, passed the Rancho of that name and began the great ascent toward the Tierra Fria.
Half way up the five thousand feet, I put on my woolen jersey; by noon we were traversing the forests of pine and oak near Rancho Nuevo and shivering from cold.
Sanitation of Primitive Man—Early Wells—Rebekah at the Well—Joseph's Well—The Rancho Chack.
Illustration: Well at the Rancho Chack] In America, the use of wells as a means of water supply is of great antiquity, dating back to pre-historic races.
The first night was passed in a hut by the roadside, which seemed to be deserted,--a hut or rancho as it is called in that country.
And then, at last, that day's work was also over, and Fanny Arkwright slipped from her pillion down into her husband's arms at the door of another rancho in the forest.
In making the tour, the first range we worked was that of rancho Santa Maria, south of our range and on the head of Tarancalous Creek.
Tarancalous Creek ran almost due east, and rancho Santa Maria was located near its source, depending more on its wells for water supply than on the stream which only flowed for a few months during the year.
Well, well, if the soil of this rancho was so impoverished, then the sons of Las Palomas must take the bit in their teeth and come courting to Santa Maria.
After sending, under five or six men, our cut of several hundred cattle westward on our course, our outfit rode into rancho Santa Maria proper to pay our respects.
At the Rancho Sepulvida, a large force of the Californians was posted.
Sespe was on the San Cayetano rancho of Saticoy river, twenty miles from the sea.
Tapo and Simi were rancherias on the present Noriega rancho of Simi.
Cayeguas (not a Spanish name as spelt on some maps) on rancho of that name.
Of such was El Cojo rancho around Point Concepcion; the Santa Margarita, El Sur, Piedra Blanca, and a hundred others.
At Chico is the home of the late General Bidwell, Rancho Chico, another one of California's principalities.
On his way from Austin's Law had stopped at a rancho for a bite to eat, but he could forgive himself for the delay if, as he surmised, Urbina had been warned by wire of his coming.
At the next rancho they came to they applied for shelter, but were denied; in fact, the owner cursed them so roundly for being Americans that they were glad to ride onward.
He honors my poor thirsty rancho with a visit and brings a glorious rain; then he destroys my enemies like a thunderbolt.
About half way we passed a rancho with some water; farther on the road forks; the right hand road leads directly to the town; the other by a large hacienda [qu.
Rancho de Taos; and for another place about the same distance N.
Marched 25 miles [from Rancho Nuevo] to Vequeria, a small place on a creek of the same name.
II'-28] El Rancho de San Antonio, already indicated as on the Rio Nasas, but exact location in question.
Rancho Sabinal, Sabinal station, and a certain Pueblito succeed one another, bringing us about opposite the above said Las Nutrias.
A small plain half a mile below the rancho contains also some springs and water-pools, and good grass.
Marched early and at nine o'clock arrived at a Rancho on fine running water; course east and west.
The rancho was situated on the northern verge of the broad valley, on the borders of a pure sparkling stream, surrounded in every direction, far and near, with golden lakes of wild oats, thickly studded and shaded by the oaks.
Skirting along the banks of a rapid stream, the shades of night began to fall as we drew bridles at a small rancho of one Don Herman.
On we spurred, and urged the jaded steeds some leagues further, when we came upon the rancho of Carlos Castro.
Leaving our deer to the varmints, we returned to the rancho at noon, dined, and again boot and saddle; struck the road, and six or eight leisurely leagues brought us to the settlement of Puebla de San Jose.
Meeting Miss Ellen Murphy and brother on the road bound to high mass at the mission, I agreed to accompany them and return to their rancho in the evening.
Night riders, who often steered their course by it, knew it to be the light in the Rancho de los Olmos.
The beasts arrived at Rancho Seco one evening at dusk; and were received and counted by the foreman of the ranch.
Miss Marilla was her name; and I had figured it out by the rule of two that she was destined to become the chatelaine and lady superior of Rancho Lomito, belonging to R.
And when a Curtis bought the Rancho de los Olmos, sixteen miles from the Cibolo, there were lively times on the pear flats and in the chaparral thickets off the Southwest.
Beyond it were the horse corrals; and still farther the wool sheds and the brush-topped shearing pens--for the Rancho Cibolo raised both cattle and sheep.
Thirty-two years I have lived on the Rancho Cibolo," said Tia Juana.
Already a hundred yards away, Vaminos, the good flea-bitten dun, was bearing him eastward like a racer through dust and chaparral towards the Rancho de los Olmos.
In the morning the capable, revolvered youth and his /vaqueros/ set forth, driving the bunch of Sussex cattle across the prairies to the Rancho Seco.
The rancho was, therefore, reduced to possession by General Vallejo before the Americans took possession of the country.
On this rancho General Vallejo kept as many as fifteen thousand head of horses and horned cattle running at will, attended only by the necessary vaqueros employed to watch and attend them.
In the case of the young man every foot of the way to his father's rancho was familiar.
No one knew better than he how impossible it would be to resist another spasm like that which had seized him a little while after his son had ridden off the rancho early that morning.
It has also been found occasionally or accidentally in central northern Venezuela (Rancho Grande); and in western Bolivia (Nairapi and Tilotilo near La Paz).
To the Senorita Inez he had spoken of his claim upon the Windham rancho through her brother's note won on the gambling table.
Slowly he made his way back to the Rancho Briones.
Down its farther slope was the little rancho of Dona Briones, where Inez in her extremity had sought the good friend of her childhood.
On Windham rancho the Senora Windham waited with a faith that knew no end for the coming of her husband.
What would our old land barons have thought of a rancho four by six feet, which the first of our trade winds will blow into the bay?
A darker peninsula in the marsh she knew to be the extreme boundary of her future home: the Rancho de los Cuervos.
Passing again into the garden, he followed in fancy the wayfaring figure of Francisco, saw the child arrive at the rancho of Don Juan, and with the fateful blindness of all dreamers projected a picture most unlike the reality.
Why had she given her word that she would remain at therancho until he returned?
The difficulties of her journey were over; the rancho lay scarcely two miles away; she had achieved the most important part of her task in the appointed time; but she hesitated.
Stop at no posada nor fonda, but if the child is weary, rest then awhile at Don Juan Briones' or at the rancho of the Blessed Fisherman.
You passed the boundary monument of the rancho five minutes ago.
For some time they talked on indifferent subjects; at last Don Gregorio said: "I often pass this way, but I never remember seeing this rancho before.
If you had let me break open the door of that rancho we should have found a skunk inside," said Evana.
I had great difficulty in reaching the rancho unobserved, and had no sooner entered than their dogs began barking round the place.
There was another came up to the rancho with the Senor Evana whom I should recognise if I saw him again, but I do not know who he is.
Walking up to the door of the rancho he tried it, as Beruti had done before him.
Round the rancho he walked but could see nothing, while the dogs became more furious in their clamour.
As the bugles sounded the reveille the next morning, there came a knock of the door of the rancho in which Marcelino had taken up his quarters.
I shall encamp my men on the open ground, and there is a rancho I marked there which will do for me.
A small ranchoclose at hand was taken by Marcelino for his own accommodation, and here he spent rather more than a fortnight, always on the alert, and practising his negroes at target shooting in addition to their regular drills.
We are so delighted with all we see that we are quite surprised, after a run of sixteen hours, to find ourselves at the rancho of Las Islas, where we spend what remains of the night, and early the next morning start for Paraiso.
This point settled, we are soon ready to start for Tierra Colorada, a rancho some nine miles from S.
We press on as best we may, and some hours later we reach a rancho where fresh eggs, poultry, and a beverage made of Indian corn, somewhat restore our jaded frames.
In the evening rockets announced the joyful news, and the stars shone out over the woods and plains as on the evening when the bright particular star guided the three sheikhs to some such place as was the rancho of our host.
Arrived at a small rancho we got off, and found the owner was a Spaniard from Navarre, married to a Brazilian woman.
After the shepherd’s story, in the afternoon firing had been distinctly heard towards the small rancho of Las Crucecitas, which lay about three leagues further on upon the road.
But the sun shone with dry Californian brilliancy over the league-long field around him, revealing every detail of the rancho with sharp, matter of fact directness, and without the least illusion of distance or romance.
This time there was no hesitation in his resolve; he would leave the rancho at the expiration of his engagement.
The planting of the rancho was nearly over; his service would be ended next week; he had not yet given his answer to Woodridge's proposition; he would decline it and cut the whole concern!
On the twenty-fourth of March, 1856, brother Ben took us all to pioneer quarters on Rancho de los Cazadores, where their growing interests required the personal attention of the three brothers.
The following August, Mr. Houghton made his first visit to Rancho de los Cazadores, and with fatherly pride, showed the likeness of his little girl, and promised to keep us all in touch with her by letter.
They all had the means of concealing them about their persons; for most of them were dressed in the garb of civilised life, in the plundered habiliments of the rancho and hacienda.
A few broken and decaying logs, or crumbling walls of the adobe were all that remained to attest where the settlers' rancho had stood.
