Gold Rush Era Letters

By the Natives. This Country was St Settled by Spain But they have no claim on it at present the Natives are al Catholics and hold to the old form of religion there is the finest Churches here I have ever seen, during the last week of lent the people don't work any, attending church and torch light processions is all they attend to. I never Seen anything to Equal the doings here, on Palm Sunday they have the figure of Christ as large as life Seated on an ass. Walking through the City and laying palms under his feet