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 26 THE TOURIST'S CALIFORNIA Anjeles). In Spanish words, every vowel is pro* nounced (real = raal; tamale = tamahla). LI = ly (Cabrillo = Cabreelyo). One comes frequently upon Indian proper names : Siskiyou, Yreka, Hoopa, Modoc, Tehama, Yolo, Yuba, Napa, Tuolumne, Yo-Semite, Mono, Ka- weah, Temecula. These jostle on the crowded map Mendocino and El Dorado, Squaw Valley and Dry Town, Clipper Gap, Coppstropolis and So- nora, Granada and Grizzly Flat, Sultana and Grub Gulch, Indio, Gazelle and Chinese, Java and Johannesburg, Odessa, Lucerne, Malaga, Siam and Aberdeen. Climate and Seasons. In a country where climate is capitalised by the hotel-keeper and the land agent no less than it is immortalised by the poet, the vagaries of dust- winds, bleak " trades " and white fogs are sup- pressed by the loyal citizen, or, if admitted at all to the stranger, are attributed to a rival town never to his own. It is counted a sort of meteoro- logical treason if a San Diegan grant that melan- choly days do sometimes fall upon that " sun- kissed " clime. A resident of San Bernardino or Riverside takes but guilty cognisance of the hur- ricanes of sand which whip in from the desert. Fresno's summers are never, according to Fres- nians, other than idyllically balmy. San Fran-