Crossword-Solution: YERBABUENA 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Long before he spoke, or before the Stars and Stripes had been raised over Yerbabuena, as far back as in 1835, the English people and the British Government had been advised by Alexander Forbes that "The situation of California for intercourse with other countries and its capacity for commerce--should it ever be possessed by a numerous and industrious population--are most favorable.

Maritime Alps of California.--Entrance to Bay of San Francisco.--Yerbabuena.--Society.--Pranks on Horses.--Saddles.--New York Regiment.--The Cannibal Emigrants, and the Dutchman's Appetite; with Baptiste's Remarks thereon.--Perils of Emigration.

Dispatches and Equipments.--Californian Gamesters.--The Vacuero.--Don Herman.--The Youthful Mother and her Gay Deceiver.--We Sup on Eggs.--Murphy's Rancho.--Pretty Ellen.--Picturesque Location.--Puebla.--Santa Clara.--Priests and Indians.--Ladies drying Beef.--Reach Yerbabuena.

Our anchorage was near the little village of Yerbabuena, five miles from the ocean, and within a short distance from the Franciscan Mission and Presidio of the old royalists.

This was Yerbabuena as we found it on our first coming--rapidly springing into importance, and bidding fair at some future day, even without the advantages to be derived from the mines which were then unknown, to become the greatest commercial port on the Pacific.