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Title: The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches

Author: David Starr Jordan

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THE STORY OF THE INNUMERABLE COMPANY, AND OTHER SKETCHES

BY

DAVID STARR JORDAN

PRESIDENT OF LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY

SAN FRANCISCO

THE WHITAKER & RAY COMPANY (INCORPORATED)

1896

COPYRIGHT, 1896,

BY

DAVID STARR JORDAN

TO MY WIFE,

JESSIE KNIGHT JORDAN.

PREFATORY NOTE.

This volume is made up of separate sketches, historical or allegorical,
having in some degree a bond of union in the idea of "the higher
sacrifice."

I am under obligations to Professor William R. Dudley for the use of a
photograph of a record of Father Serra. This was secured through the
kindness of the late Father Casanova, of Monterey.

PALO ALTO, CAL., June 1, 1896.

CONTENTS.

THE STORY OF THE INNUMERABLE COMPANY
THIS STORY OF THE PASSION
THE CALIFORNIA OF THE PADRE
THE CONQUEST OF JUPITER PEN
THE LAST OF THE PURITANS
A KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF POETS
NATURE-STUDY AND MORAL CULTURE
THE HIGHER SACRIFICE
THE BUBBLES OF SAKI

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Peter Rendl as Saint John

Johann Zwink as Judas

Rosa Lang as Mary

"Ecce Homo!"

A Record of Junipero Serra

Mission of San Antonio de Padua

Mission of San Antonio de Padua--Interior of Chapel

Mission of San Antonio de Padua--Side of Chapel,
with the Old Pear-trees

The Great Saint Bernard

Hospice of the Great Saint Bernard

Hospice of the Great Saint Bernard--in Winter

Jupitere (Great Saint Bernard Dog)

Monks of the Great Saint Bernard

Saint Bernard and the Demon

John Brown

The John Brown Homestead, North Elba, N. Y.

John Brown's Grave

Ulrich Von Hutten

Ulrich Zwingli

_Men told me, Lord, it was a vale of tears
Where Thou hast placed me, wickedness and woe
My twain compa