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in it. A few years later a man was hanged from aconvenient beam projecting from the peak of the Cus-tom House, which had been given temporary space inthe square. Later a fire destroyed the Custom House.* * * Life in those days was too strenuous to expect peopleto give up time to what might be… … The children had the whole wide domain in whichto wander. The Pacific Ocean was miles away acrossthe Great Sand Bank, as the Sunset and Richmonddistricts are delineated on the maps of that period. Butthe bay afforded them boating, swimming and fishing,while small animal life insured a good days…
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