Over the Santa Lucia [pp. 449-468]

THE
Overland
Monthly.
Vol. XX. (Second Series).-November, I892.-No. ii9.
OVER THE SANTA LUCIA.
Io
/ N a hollow on the sea ward side of the Santa
L u c i a mountains,
about sixty m i 1 e s
south of old Mon terey, is such a com munity as one reads
;i' -t about, but s e 1 d o m
sees. Should you be
dropped there from
the sky, and told
that there is no water exit, you would resign yourself to wait
for a gigantic feat of engineering, or an
improved flying machine. But if you
gazed long enough at the impassable
looking mountains to the east, your
hopes might sight some means of rescue
nearer than the millennium. Not that
the mountains grow less formidable on
close inspection-it is the habit of mountains to do otherwise; but you might by
chance see a far-off mule with its rider
tacking and veering down the ridge, and
taking in general a course like a telescoped letter S continued indefinitely.
Then, well for you if you are a good
equestrian, tough of fiber, and bold of
heart, for your exit is assured.
It was in August, I89I, that I bade
farewell to civilization, and set my face
southwestward, with this place as an
objective point. About noon we entered
Monterey County. Frdmont's Peak
IN TIIE SAI.,LNAS \ALLE\.
NOL. XX.-39. (Copyright, 1892, by OVERLAND MONTHILY l'UB,IISHIN(; Co.) All i-ights reseirved.
Bacon & C('ompany, Priiters.