And Mrs.Bunker perhaps was not pained to learn that her husband's family was of a lower degree than her own.

But the stranger's knowledge did not end there.

He talked of her husband's business--he explained the vast fishing resources of the bay and coast.

He showed her how the large colony of Italian fishermen were inimical to the interests of California and to her husband--particularly as a native American trader.

He told her of the volcanic changes of the bay and coast line, of the formation of the rocky ledge on which she lived.