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As the little ship that had three times raced with death sailed past the gray headlands and into the straits of San Francisco on that brilliant A pril morning of 1806, Rezanov forgot the bitter humiliations, the mental and physical torments, the deprivations and dangers of the past three years1 forgot those harrowing months in the harbor of Nagasaki when the Russian bear had caged his tail in the presence of eyes aslant; his dismay at Kamchatka when he had been forced to send home an other to vindicate his failure, and to remain in the Tsar sincontiguous and barbarous northeastern posses sions as representative of his Imperial Majesty, and plenipotentiary of the Company his own genius had created; forgot the year of loneliness and hardship and peril in whose jaws the bravest was impotent; forgot even his pitiable crew, diseased when he left Sitka, that had filled the Juno with their groans and laments; and the bells of youth, long still, rang in his soul once more. It is the spring in California, he thought, with a sigh that curled at the edge. However, life had made him philosophical; the moments of unreasonable happiness are the most enviable no doubt, for there is neither gall nor satiety in the reaction. All this is as enchanting as well, as a womans promise. What lies beyond? Illiterate and mercenary Spaniards, vicious natives, and boundless ennui, one may safely wager. But if all California is as beautiful as this, no man that has spent a winter in Sitka should ask for more.
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- PublisherIrvington Pub
- Publication date1906
- ISBN 10 0839800673
- ISBN 13 9780839800675
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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