added with a shiver.

"Basta, Juan!" said his friend. "What do you know about. it? Were it not
for my wife and little one, I would go away quickly, and be glad to go.
There are Indians here and in Baja California, plenty of them, and what
harm do they do any one?"

"All very well," replied the other. "You may not believe it. But I have
heard tales of that land which made my flesh creep. Know you not what
the Indians did to Father Jaime at Mission San Diego? Would you like to
have been there then? I think not."

"You remember well," answered his companion. "That was over twenty years
ago. There are many more people there now, and the Indians would not
dare do such things again. Besides, these children are going to
Monterey, and that is a large town, I have heard."

The children boarded the ship, and were soon standing by the taffrail,
watching the busy scene below, as the men hurried with the last loads of
the cargo. Presently all was done, the vessel weighed anchor, and slowly
making her way out of the harbor, set her course for the distant
northern country.

During the three weeks' voyage these children lost much of their shyness
at their strange surroundings, made friends with all on board, and had a
generally royal good time - probably the first they had ever had in their
short lives. Under charge of the sisters of the asylum whence they came,
they had had the best of training, which, although lacking the
individual love of the mother for her own children, was one to influence
and increase their religious instincts, and to make them good, pious