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9781890771584

The Journey of the Flame

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  • ISBN13:

    9781890771584

  • ISBN10:

    1890771589

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-01-01
  • Publisher: Heyday Books
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Summary

On the eve of his 104th birthday, Don Juan Obrigon -- tall and straight, with hair still flaming red -- prepares to tell his life story to assembled relatives and guests. The story he will tell describes his travels as a boy of twelve in 1810, when he accompanied the Spanish viceroy of Baja California from the southern tip of Baja California to Monterey.

The Journey of the Flame is that rare treasure, an artfully imagined work of fiction that is based on meticulous research and brings life to the study of history. Here are the manners, textures, and tones of Spanish California, transcending all stereotypes. A slow ride through exotic territory, the book is rich in leisurely pacing and dense detail (entertaining a child by getting a desert rat to inflate the egg-sized food pouch under his ears!) that truly capture another time and reveal another world.

Considered a masterpiece of California literature by an entire generation of historians, geographers, and literary critics, The Journey of the Flame has been long out of print but is now available in a new and

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Introduction xxv
Prelude 1(6)
How Juanito Stole Molasses Candy
7(11)
The Wizard Gopher
Sacrilege at San Jose del Arroyo
18(13)
The Church Robber Poisons Me
My Grandfather Gives Me a Cigarette and a Toledo Dagger
31(16)
A Hinny Has but One Vice
``A Woman's Smile is the Devil's Wile''
The Time of Pitahayas
How to Steal Piglets from a Wild Sow
The Sanhudo Family and Why the Best Knives in Mexico Serve It
47(11)
``A Silk Dress for Every Tear''
How a Gentleman Traveled in 1810
Some Reflections on Mules and Other Animals
Our First Camp at Santa Anita, and How the Mayas Played Ball There
How We Traveled and Where We Camped
58(14)
Miraflores and Its Flowers
Polite Adieus to a Spanish Gentlewoman
``Am I Not a De la Cerda?''
The Coyote Rabiosa
The First Four-Wheeled Vehicle in the Three Californias
72(13)
``My She-Devil Planted Two Hoofs in My Belly, and I Wait for Them to Sprout''
Inocente is Lost
``Come and Drink Chocolate''
The Tailless Chickens of La Paz
85(10)
The Mysteries of the Vermilion Sea Which Pearl-Divers Taught Juanito
The Manta with Fifteen-Foot Wings
The Burro-Shell Which Sucks Men's Blood
Sharks, the Octopus, and the Ojon, Which Demands Politeness at Sea
The Snake-Trap
95(21)
``If so be There are Kidneys in Heaven''
The Admiral of Pearl-Divers Gives Me a Spanish Machete with a Blood Pearl in its Handle
``Watch Me Cozen This King's Viceroy''
Don Juan Ocio and His Unwelcome Domestic Improvements
The Company of Manta-Feeders
``There was a Pirate Named Drake After a Male Duck, but Why I Know Not''
The Mission of Dolores del Sur
116(10)
How the Greatest Official in All the Californias Lost His Dinner
Padre Ugarte's Method of Converting Wizards
The Mission of San Luis Gonzaga, Where Padre Ugarte Outdanced All His Converts
Felipe Romero's Eight Months' Voyage from the Philippines to La Paz
The Great Stone-Arched Church of San Francisco Xavier de Vigge
Loreto, Capital of Lower California
126(12)
Why an Official Swallowed His Teeth at Loreto
How Valuable Grants of Land are Obtained
An Island of Salt from Which All the Oceans Could be Resalted
The First Boarding-School for Girls in the Three Californias
The Library of Five Hundred Volumes
Hidden in Dry Sand
138(5)
Merely the Twanging of a Bowstring and Silence
Living Eyes of Dead Beasts
I Fill One Pocket with Enormous Pearls
Cabeza de Vaca Misdirects Those Who Would do Us Harm
143(14)
The Black Figs of the Mission of Comondu, and the Hog Which Distrusted Me There
``From These Vines and Fruit Trees Come All Those in the Three Californias''
Padre Salvatierra's Miracle of the Sea-Gulls
The Rock Aljibe of ``Hell Awaits Thee''
157(17)
I See the Skeleton of Don Sturgo Nacimbin
Its Eyes Move and Its Arm Beckons
``Never Again Will I Sleep in a House''
My Hinny Prays for Me
Winter at the Mission La Purisima Concepcion de Cadegoma
174(16)
A Conversation Between God and the Devil
Albondigas de Abalone
How Female Saints Should be Selected
``Remember, a Nose Cost Spain One Great Colony''
Slapping His Thighs and Laughing as a Mule Brays
A Ship Loaded with Pearls
The Misfortune of that Great Pilot Iturbe
Winter Amusements at the Mission
190(7)
La Purisima Concepcion de Cadegoma
``Let Us Roast a Mescal for Lunch''
``Teach a Banker's Son to Steal and an Official's Boy to Lie''
The Marquis of Sonora Brought Six Hundred Monkeys from Guatemala to Till California
Indian Justice Destroys by Flame
197(7)
Unimaginable Quantities of Sea Life in Lagoons and Bays
Three Gulls Support an Indian Family
Point Open-Your-Eyes
The Ituma Bird Which Tradition Says Once Spoke Several Indian Languages
The Mission of Santa Rosalia de Mulege and Its Good Wine
204(10)
The Mission of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe del Norte
``There is Nothing I More Detest than an Unnecessary Lie''
At Three Years Old is Bug Age; at Four, Mouse Age; at Six, Snake Age
``Why do You Bob Your Hair?'' I Asked an Indian Woman
The Dead Jesuit's Curse
214(13)
The Door is the Mouth of the House, Because All Who Enter It are Swallowed up
If a Man's Tongue is Split Lengthwise, Can He Talk Twice as Much as Before?
Rain from a Cloudless Sky
The King's Mail Passes
Arrival at the Mission of San Ygnacio Kadakaaman
We Said Our Prayers to Satan at Hell's Back Door
227(10)
The Mission of Santa Gertrudis
The First Wine Made in the Californias
Padre Serra's Kindly Action
Gossip Regarding Maria Borgia, Duchess of Gandia
237(10)
She Sent That Brilliant Jesuit, Winceslao Link, to This Desolation of San Francisco Borja to Save Her Own Soul
Don Firmin Compares Padre Lasuen and Padre Serra
The Mission of San Francisco Borja
Dona Ysabel Asks that the Trails North of This Mission Shall be Included in the List of California Pests Her Little Girl is Keeping
The Mission of San Fernando Velicata
The Lost Mission of Santa Ysabel and Its Treasure
I Am Ordered by Don Firmin Sanhudo to Stay Within Our Circle of Fighting Men in Event of Battle
247
A Tidal Wave of San Vicente Indians Rose from an Arroyo in the Plains of the Cross
Dona Ysabel Draws from Her Breast a Tiny Stiletto with Its Handle a Serpent's Head
The Battle Won, Our Mayas are Calmed with a Word
With Tears I Say Good-bye as a Great Ship Takes the Sanhudos from Monterey

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