They are ready to expose themselves to the greatest danger to satisfy their predominant passions.

The future from them is ever veiled by the present.

Their inconstancy and want of confidence deprives them of friends, and he who by deception holds them in subjection may reduce them to almost abject slavery." Dana, speaking of the language of the Californian Indians, described it as "brutish" and "a complete slabber." The missionary Fathers did their best to teach and convert them, and the missions must be spoken of.

So we will go back a little.
No one knows how California was so named.

St.Diego was the patron saint of Spain.