USA > California > History of California, Volume I > Part 23
USA > California > History of California, Volume I > Part 23
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81
In the last days of June Sergeant Ortega with a soldier makes his appearance in camp, announcing that his companions under Portolá are only a few days' march from the port. Ten soldiers are sent back with Ortega to meet the approaching party. On the 29th the governor arrives in advance of his men; and on the first of July, a little before noon, Father Serra and all the rest are welcomed in camp. This second division of the land expedition, consisting of the three officials just named, of nine or ten soldiers de cuera, four muleteers, two servants of the governor and president, and forty-four natives of Lower California, had left Velicatá the 15th of May, and had followed the route of Rivera's party. The journey had been an uneventful and comparatively easy one. The gen- tiles were occasionally threatening, but did no harm. As in the case of the first division most of the neo- phytes deserted, only twelve reaching San Diego; . but there were no deaths.18 The second day Father
18 Portolá, Diario del Viage que haze por tierra Dn Gaspar de Portolá, Cap- itan de Dragones del regimiento de España, Governador de Californias, á los puertos de San Diego y Monterey situados en 38 y 37 grados, haviendo sido nom- brado comandante en gefe de esta expedicion por el Illmo Señor Dn Joseph de
135
THE SECOND LAND EXPEDITION.
Junípero's foot became so painful that it seemed im- possible for him to continue. Portolá wished to send him back, but the president would not think of it. A. litter was thereupon ordered to be made, but Serra was much troubled at the extra work this imposed on the poor Indians. Calling an arriero he induced him to prepare an ointment of tallow and herbs which, combined with the friar's faith and prayers, so far healed the affected limb in a single night that it gave no more trouble. Listen to the record: " That even- ing he called the arriero Juan Antonio Coronel, and said, 'Son, canst thou not make me a remedy for the ulcer on my foot and leg?' But he answered, 'Padre, what remedy can I know? Am I a surgeon? I am an arriero, and have healed only the sores of beasts.' ' Then, son, suppose me a beast and this ulcer a saddle- gall from which have resulted the swelling of the leg and the pains that I feel and that give me no rest; and make for me the same medicament that thou wouldst apply to a beast.'" 19
Galvez en virtud de las facultades vice-regiasque le ha concedido su Excela. Dicha expedicion se componia de 37 soldados de cuera con su capitan Da Fernando de Rivera deriendo cste adelantarse con 27 soldados, y cl governador con 10 y un sargento. MS., folio, 35 pages. This diary is a copy from the original made in carly times. It includes not only the trip to San Diego but the later one to Monterey to be noticed in the next chapter. The entries for each day's march are very brief, containing the number of hours marched, generally 4 or 5 per day, the character of the road and camping-place, and some notes of interviews with gentiles. For example, May 27, 'anduvimos como cinco horas, buen camino, paramos en la cieneguilla, cuio nombre puso cl padre jesuita Linc, desde aqui se tomó otro rumbo, y paramos en un arroyuelo aunque seco,' etc. June 21, they were at Todos Santos, and heard of other Spaniards beyond. For the last 3 or 4 days they travelled on or near the shore. Other diaries of this journey, several of which were written, are not extant; but Crespi's journal already referred to was intended to embody all the infor- mation worth preserving. Sergt. Ortega, in Santa Clara, Arch. Parroquia, MS., 48-54, represents the hardships of the soldiers as very great; hut he was evidently writing for an object that required this view of the matter. The same writer gives a brief and rather confused account of the journey in a narrative of his own services dated 1786. Prov. St. Pap., MS., vi. 171-2. Serra, in his letter of July 3d, to Palou, says there was no suffering whatever. Palou, Vida, 7S; Greenhow, Or. and Cal., 100, erroncously implies that both land expeditions started together and that Portolá arrived last on account of having followed a more difficult route.
19 From San Diego Serra himself writes, Palou, Vida, 73-8: 'Now the foot is all sound like the other, while from the ankle half way up the leg it is as the foot was before, an ulcer; but without swelling or pain except the occa- sional itching. In fact it is nothing serious.'
136
OCCUPATION OF SAN DIEGO.
Thus are the four branches of the visitador gen- eral's grand expedition finally reunited at San Diego, one year after Galvez had begun his preparations on the peninsula. Next day is Sunday, fiesta de la visi- tacion, and the California pilgrims, one hundred and twenty-six in number-out of two hundred and nine- teen who had started;20 or, omitting natives and sailors, seventy-eight of Spanish blood out of ninety who had come to remain-celebrate their safe reunion by a solemn thanksgiving mass to the patron San José chanted with " la solemnidad posible," and to the accompaniment of exploding gunpowder. The cere- monies over, the two comandantes Portolá and Vila meet to consult respecting future movements, the want of sailors necessitating changes in the original plans. The decision is to send the San Antonio back to San Blas for supplies, and especially a crew for herself and the San Carlos, which is to await her return. The friars for missionary and hospital work are to be left at San Diego under the protection of a guard of soldiers, while the main force presses on to Monterey by land. Great dependence is placed on the San José which on arrival is to be sent up the coast to aid the land expedition. Accordingly the 9th of July Perez sails with a small crew of convales- cent sailors for the south,21 bearing reports from the commandants and president. Five days later Portolá starts on his overland march northward, which will be described in the following chapter.
There are left at San Diego Captain Vila, Surgeon Prat, the mate Cañizares, three friars, a guard of eight
20 The numbers are not exact, statements of deaths being conflicting. These pioneers included captains Portolá and Rivera, Lient. F'ages, captains Vila and Perez of the vessels, padres Serra, Crespí, Vizcaino, Gomez, and Parron; Surgeon Prat; Costansó, engineer; Cañizares, piloto; and sergeants Ortega and Puig. For names of all the band see list at end of this volume.
21 Palou, Not., i. 282, says that July 6th was the day set for sailing; but this may be a misprint. Nine of the sailors died of scurvy on the voyage. It is probable that these last victims were included in Palou's statement of 12 sur- vivors, 5 of whom were left on the San Carlos, 2 or 3 reached San Blas, and 4 or 5 remained ill at San Diego. The San Antonio made the voyage in 20 days.
137
A MISSION FOUNDED.
cuera soldiers, five convalescent Catalan volunteers, a few sick sailors, five able seamen, a carpenter and a blacksmith, three boy servants, and eight Lower California Indians-about forty persons in all. As yet no mission has been formally founded; but this duty is at once attended to by Father Serra, who raises and blesses the cross on Sunday, the 16th of July.22 This first of the Californian missions is dedicated, as the port had been by Vizcaino long before, to San Diego de Alcalá, being founded on a spot called by the natives Cosoy,23 now Old Town. The ceremonies are not minutely recorded, but are the usual blessing of the cross, mass, and sermon by which it was hoped "to put to flight all the hosts of Hell and subject to the mild yoke of our holy faith the barbarity of the gentile Dieguinos." Then more huts are built, and one is dedicated as a church.
The new establishment, however, in which Father Parron is associate minister, still lacks one essential element of a prosperous mission, namely, converts, who in this case are difficult to find. The natives are by no means timid, but they come to the mission for gifts material rather than spiritual; and being adroit thieves as well as importunate beggars, their presence in large numbers becomes a nuisance, rendering it impossible for the small force to watch them and give proper attention to the sick. Fortunately the savages will have nothing to do with the food of the Spaniards, attributing to it some agency in the late ravages of the scurvy; but other things, particularly cloth, they deign to steal at any hour of day or night. They even
22 It is noticeable that in all the general reports after 1823 this date is given as June 16th; but there is no doubt that it is an error. Arch. Santa Bárbara, MS., xii. 125. Serra thinks, Prov. St. Pap., MS., i. 125, that April 11th has some claim to be considered the beginning of the mission, since on that day when the San Antonio arrived began the spiritual manifestations to the natives, causing them to see an eclipse and feel an earthquake, not perceptible to the Christians.
23 San Diego, Lib. de Mision, MS. St James of Alcalá was an Andalucian Franciscan who lived from 1400 to 1463, and was canonized in 15SS rather for his pious life and the miracles wrought through him before and after death than for any high position held by him. Alcalá was rarely attached to the name of the mission in popular usage.
138
OCCUPATION OF SAN DIEGO.
attempt in their tule rafts to pillage the San Carlos, so that two of the eight soldiers are obliged to be on board. Persuasions, threats, and even the noise of fire-arms are met by ridicule.
Naturally matters come to a crisis. The guard is obliged to use force in repelling the intruders, who in their turn determine upon a raid for plunder. The 15th of August, while Parron with a guard of two soldiers is saying mass on the ship, as he is wont to do on feast-days, the savages enter the mission and begin to strip the clothing from the beds of the sick. Two soldiers are on guard and two more hasten to their aid; but when they attempt to drive away the pillagers they receive a volley of arrows which kills a boy and wounds Padre Vizcaino, the blacksmith, a soldier, and a California24 Indian. The Spaniards in return fire a volley of musket-balls which kills three of the foe, wounds several more, and puts the whole crowd to flight. Serra and Vizcaino have just finished mass and are sitting together in a hut at the time of the attack, and the latter, rising to close the door, receives an arrow in the hand just as the boy servant staggers in and falls dead. The smith greatly dis- tinguishes himself by his bravery, fighting without the protection of a cuera.25
It is not long before the gentiles come back to seek medical treatment for their wounded, imbued with a degree of faith in the destructive power of gunpowder, and correspondingly improved in manners, but by no means desirous of conversion. A stockade is thrown round the mission and the natives are no longer permitted to bring weapons within musket- shot. Thus safety is assured, but in missionary work
24 For a long time at San Diego and Monterey the peninsula only was spoken of as 'California.' Either local names or Nuevos Establecimientos were applied to the north, although Serra in his first letter from San Diego used the term 'California Septentrional.'
25 In his Vida de Junip. Serra, 84, Palou speaks of previous assaults with intent to kill the Spaniards on Aug. 12th to 13th, which were repulsed. Tut- hill, Hist. C'al., 79, erroneously states that a priest was killed. Serra, San Diego, Lib. Mis., MS., 65, says the man killed was a Spanish arriero 20 years old named José Maria Vegerano.
139
NO PROGRESS IN CONVERSION.
no progress is made. One gentile, indeed, is induced by gifts to live with the Spaniards and becomes a skil- ful interpreter, but even with his aid no converts can be gained. Once the savages offer a child for baptism, but when the service begins they seize the child and flee in terror. Yet we are told that when a painting of the virgin and child is displayed, the native women come and offer their breasts to feed "that pretty babe." Prior to April 1770, a full year from the first coming of the Spaniards, and perhaps to a still later period, for the register was subsequently destroyed, and thee arliest date is not known, not a single neo- phyte was enrolled at the mission. In all the mis- sionary annals of the north-west there is no other instance where paganism remained so long so stub- born.
Meanwhile new cases of sickness occur and death continues its ravages, taking from the little band before the return of Portolá in January, eight sol- diers, four sailors, one servant, and six Indians, and leaving but about twenty persons. Little wonder that small progress is made in missionary work.26
26 On the general subject of this chapter, in addition to the special docu- ments already referred to, see for a connected narrative Palou, Not., i. 254-84, 427-32; ii. 93-153; Id., Vida, 60-86. The notes of Serra in San Diego, Lib. Mision, MS., are also a valuable source of information. These notes were written to supply as far as possible from memory the loss of the original mis- sion books destroyed with the mission in 1775. Copies are also found in IIayes' Miss. Book, MS., i. 99-106, and in Bandini, Doc. Hist. Cal., MS. Miguel Costansó published in Mexico, 1770, an account of these expeditions as Diario Histórico de losviagesde mar y tierra, hechos al Norte de la California, fol. 56. It was translated by Wm. Revely and published in 1790 by A. Dal- rymple as An Historical Journal, etc., 2 maps, 4to, 76 p.
CHAPTER VI.
FIRST EXPEDITION FROM SAN DIEGO TO MONTEREY AND SAN FRANCISCO. 1769.
PORTOLÁ MARCHES FROM SAN DIEGO-HIS COMPANY-CRESPI'S JOURNAL- NOTE ON GEOGRAPHY AND NOMENCLATURE-TABLE OF NAMES AND DIS- TANCES-FIRST BAPTISM IN CALIFORNIA - EARTHQUAKES IN THE LOS ANGELES REGION-A HOSPITABLE PEOPLE AND LARGE VILLAGES ON THE SANTA BÁRBARA CHANNEL-ACROSS THE SIERRA AND DOWN THE SALINAS RIVER-UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH FOR MONTEREY-CAUSES OF THE ERROR -- NORTHWARD ALONG THE COAST-IN SIGHT OF PORT SAN FRANCISCO UNDER POINT REYES-CONFUSION IN NAMES-MYSTERY CLEARED- EXPLORATION OF THE PENINSULA-DISCOVERY OF A NEW AND NAMELESS BAY-RETURN OF THE EXPEDITION TO MONTEREY AND SAN DIEGO.
I HAVE stated that two weeks after his arrival from the south Portolá left San Diego1 July 14, 1769, and marched with nearly all his force northward. His intention was to reach Monterey Bay by following the coast, and either at his destination or on the way he hoped to be overtaken by the San José, and with the aid brought by her to found a presidio and the mission of San Carlos. The company consisted of himself, Rivera y Moncada in command of twenty- seven cuera soldiers, including Sergeant Joseph Fran- cisco Ortega, Lieutenant Pedro Fages, with six or seven of his twenty-five Catalan volunteers, all that the scurvy had left alive and strong enough to under- take the march, Engineer Miguel Costansó,2 fathers Juan Crespí and Francisco Gomez, seven muleteers,
1 Mofras, Explor., i. 106, says the expedition had come across Sonora.
2 Costansó, Fages, and others, according to the Portolá, Diario, MS., 10, were ill, but advised by Prat to undertake the journey as a remedy.
{ 140 )
141
CRESPÍ'S DIARY.
fifteen christianized Lower Californians, and two ser- vants of Portolá and Rivera-sixty-four persons in all.
The expedition is fully described in a diary kept by Crespí3 and still extant, as are original statements, less complete than Crespí's, of no less than five par- ticipants, Portolá, Fages, Costansó, Ortega, and Ri- vera. As the first exploration by land of a broad extent of most important country it is not without importance and interest; yet as recorded it is in itself singularly unattractive. Crespí's diary, like that of Portolá, is a long and, except in certain parts, monoto- nous description of petty happenings not worth remem- bering. It is an almost nedless catalogue of nearly two hundred jornadas, or marches, tediously like one another, over hills and vales distinguished as being con zacate or sin zacate, grassy or barren, with the Sierra ever towering on the right, and the broad Pacific ever stretching to the left. The distance and bearing of each day's march are given, and observa- tions for latitudes were frequent; but the Mexican league was practically a vague measurement, the ob- servations of Crespí and Costansó often differed, and
3 Crespi, Viage de la Espedicion de tierra de San Diego á Monterey, Copia del diario y caminata que hizo la espedicion desde el puerto de San Diego de Alcalú hasta el de Monterey, saliendo el 14 de Julio de 1769, in Palou, Not., i. 283-423. Portolá, Diario del Viage, MS., 11, et seq., covers the same ground but much more briefly, adding nothing to Crespi's narrative except on a few points to be noticed in their place. 'El 27 handuvimos tres horas, buen camino, mucho pasto y agua ' is a fair sample of most entries. Very few names of localities are given. In his Vida de Junipero Serra, 80-2, 88-9, Palou gives but a brief account, referring for particulars to Crespi's diary. Lieut. Fages, a member of the expedition, in his Voyage en Cal., in Nouv. Annales des Voy., ci. 147-9, 133-0, 165-71, 176-82, 321-4, 328, gives a very full narrative of it, except from Monterey to San Francisco, including names of places, distances, bearings, latitudes, and description of the country, hut omitting names of persons and dates. I shall note variations from Crespi's diary, with which Fages' narrative for the most part agrees. Costansó, in his Diario Histórico de los viages de mar ytierra, gives an abridged version differing in no essential respect from Crespí. Costansó's narrative is abridged and quoted in an article signed 'M. P.,' in Album Mex., ii. 37-40. Ortega, Fragmento, in Santa Clara, Arch. Parroquia, MS., 48-54, gives an original but not very complete or accu- rate narrative. Capt. Rivera also in a certificate relating the services of Pedro Amador, gives some information respecting this entrada. St. Pap. Miss. and Colon., MS., i. 52-3. John T. Doyle in his pamphlets entitled Address and Memorandum in 1870 and 1873 gave brief résumés of parts from Crespí; and the newspapers since the reprint of Palou's werk have had something to say more or less superficially on the subject of the discovery of San Francisco Bay.
142
EXPEDITION TO MONTEREY AND SAN FRANCISCO.
worse than all, typographical errors in the printed diary make the figures unreliable. In a monograph on the trip I could, I think, trace with much accuracy each day's course, and such minute treatment would not be devoid of local interest as showing the original names applied by the Spaniards, very few of which have been preserved; but for this of course I have no space here, and must content myself with a general narrative and a note on geographical details.4
"List of places between San Diego and San Francisco as named in Crespí's diary of the first exploration of the California coast by land, with distances, bearings, and latitudes. Notes from the return trip in brackets "[ ... ]"; notes from Fages' Voyage in parentheses "( ... )"; additional and self-explanatory notes in italics. The Portolá, Diario has no distances, or names, only hours and descriptions.
July 14. | Sau Diego, 32° 30'. Really 32° 44'. Rinconada. On False Bay. Pocitos de la Cañada de San Diego.
Leagues.
Course.
2.5 (3)
N.W.
15. Sta Isabel Valley. 1 league by 400 varas. S. Jácome de la Marca Val. 1 1. by 5 1., from N. to s. (Posa de Osuna), [7 ].
from S. Juan.].
3.5 (4)
N. N. W.
16. Encinos Cañada
S. Alejo. 33° 4
2
N.
18. S. Juan Capistrano Val. 2 1., N.E. to s.w., ending at shore, 33° 6'. Really S. Luis Rey, lat. accurate ..
2
N.
20. Sta Margarita Val. The sierra draws near shore and threatens to stop ad- vance. Name retained.
1.5
N.
2
N.E.
4
N.W.
4 (3)
N.N. W.
24. S. Francisco Solano, 33° 18'. A mesa at foot of sierra with fine stream, oppo- site Sta Catalina Island, said by the explorers to be 5 1. from S. Pedro Bay. At or near S. Juan Capistrano.
3 [2]
N. W.
27. Santiago Arroyo, 33° 6'. Misprint ?.
2.5 [3] 3
N.W. N.E.
28. Sta Ana Riv., or Jesus de los Temblores, thought to flow into S. Pedro Bay [91. from Rio Porciúncula].
1.5 [1]
N. W.
29. Sta Marta Spring (Los Ojitos and S. Mi- guel).
2 6
N.W.
30. (No name), lat. 33° 34'.
N. W.
31. (No name), lat. 34° 10'. Los Angeles re- gion. 2
N. W.
17. S. Simon Lípnica Val., near sea-shore Sta Sinforosa.
21. Sta Prágedis de los Rosales Cañada, 33° 10' 22. Los Cristianos, S. Apolinario, Bautismos 23. [arroyo], (Cañada del Bautismo). . . Sta Maria Magdalena Cañada [Quemada], 33° 14'.
26. S. Pantaleon (Aguada del P. Gomez), on the edge of a large plain ...
143
GEOGRAPHICAL TABLE.
Four days after setting out from San Diego the explorers reached the pleasant valley in which the mission of San Luis Rey was later built. Their progress had been at the rate of from two to four leagues each day, and nothing along the way attracted more attention than the abundance of flowers, especially
Aug. 2.| Porciúncula Riv., a large stream, with much good land. North branch of the S. Gabriel ..
Leagues.
Course.
3 (2)
N.W.
3. Alisos de S. Estévan Spring, near an as- phaltnm marsh ..
3
W.
4. S. Rogerio Spring, or Berrendo (Fontaine du daim moucheté).
2
N.W.
5. Sta Catalina de Bononia de los Encinos Val., 34° 37', really 34° 10'. San Fer- nando Valley, in which a station still called Encino.
7. (No name.).
8. Sta Rosa de Viterbo, or Corral rancheria, 3 1. across the plain, and 4 1. over mts., 31° 47'. Near Ilart's.
3343
N. W.N.W.
11. Sta Clara, down same stream, 34° 30', a good site for a mission. 6 1. from Sta Rosa and 10 1. from Sta Catalina. This must be an error ...
33 3 3
W.S. W.
12. S. Pedro Amoliano ranchería, down tbe streanı
W.S. W.
13. Stos Mártires Ipolito y Cuciano rancheria and river, down same stream, which widens out into a river. Still called Rio Sta Clara ..
2
s. W.
14.
Asuncion (Asunta) rancheria, on sea-shore. Fine site for a mission, 34° 36'. Co- stansó made it 34° 13'. Doubtless S. Buenaventura. .
2.5
E.N.E.
15. Sta Conefundis (Ranchería Volante), along beach .
2
w.(w.N.w.)
16. Sta Clara de Monte Talco, or Bilarin, a large pueblo in 34° 40', on an arroyo, along beach. .
2
w.(w.N.w.)
17. S. Roque, or Carpintería, a large pueblo in a plain, 4 1. hy 1 1., much asphal- tum. Sta Bárbara region .. .
1
w.(w.N.w.)
18.
Concepcion Laguna (Pueblo de la Lagu- na), a very large ranchería, on a point across an estero. Sta Bárbara was af- terwards founded at S. Joaquin de la Laguna. Coast turns from w. N. W. to w .. .
4 [(3)]
w.(w.N.W.)
20.
Sta Margarita de Cortona, or Isla, or Mes- caltitlan pueblos, 34° 43'. In a marshy region, where the sloughs form an island, with four or five scattered ran- cherías. 3.5 [2.5]]
w.(w.N.w.)
N.N. W. N.
10.
Sta Clara stream and cañada ..
144
EXPEDITION TO MONTEREY AND SAN FRANCISCO.
of roses similar to those of old Castile, and for that reason delightful to the Spaniards. Crespí notes the plucking of one branch bearing six roses and twelve buds. Thus far all was literally couleur de rose. The route followed was very nearly that of the subsequent stage road between San Diego and Los Angeles. It was noticed that much of the grass had been burned
Aug. 21. |S. Luis Obispo, 34° 45', still along shore. 23. S. Güido de Cortona, along shore, four islands in sight .. .
Leagues. 2 [2.5]
Course. W.
3
W.
24. S. Lnis Rey, or La Gaviota, along shore, on a slough, 34° 47'. Perhaps origin of Gaviota Pass. Three islands in sight: S. Bernardo, S. Miguel, farthest west; Sta Cruz, Sta Rosa, next; and Sta Bár- bara, Sta Cruz, farthest east.
2.5(3) [2]
W.
25. S. Seferino, 34° 30' (14"), an Indian pueblo, Sta Ana ranchería ..
2
w.
Sta Teresa, or Cojo, ranchería, 34° 30', or 34° 51'.
2.5
W. W.
Pt Concepcion, 34° 30'.
1 { 1.5 or
N.W.
Concepcion, ranchería (Rancho de la Es- pada), 34° 51' 30"
2.5 (1)
S. Juan Bautista, or Pedernales (34° 33'), in sight of another point near by [from which Pt Concepcion bears S.E., 8º E.] This point must be Pt Argüello, though there are some difficulties.
2
N. W.
29 30.
Sta Rosalía, or Cañada Seca, on a bay be- tween last point and another ..
2.5 (2)
N.W.
S. Bernardo Riv., or Sta Rosa, mouth filled with sand, the largest river yet passed, 34° 53'. The Rio Sta Inés, though distance and hearing are not cor- rect ; just possibly the Sta Maria, in which case Pt Concepcion was Argüello, Argüello Purísima, the 2d point Pu- rísima, and Sta Rosalia at the mouth of Rio Sta Ines.
.5 (1)
N.W.
31.
S. Ramon Nonato, La Graciosa, or Baile de las Indias laguna. .
2.5 (2)
N.
Sept. 1.
S. Daniel, laguna grande, in a fine valley, 3 1. by 71., having in the middle a la- guna 500 varas wide ? 34° 13'? Mouth of the Rio Sta Maria ..
1.5 (3)
N.
2. S. Juan Perucia y S. Pedro de Sacro Ter- rato, or Real de las Víboras, or Oso Flaco (Laguna Redonda).
3 .
N.W. (N.N.W.)
4. S. Ladislao, or El Buchon. By varying courses, and finally N. into mts., 35 28'. Not clear ..
Sta Elena, or Angosta Cañada, 35° 3' ?. .
5. 7. Natividad, or Cañada de los Osos, down which they went to the sca. S. Luis Obispowas founded lateron thiscañada. 3 (4)
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.