AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1539. 



and he leapt on land with 4 or 5 mariners in his com- 



panie : and while they behelde those cottages, they saw 



many Indians descending downe a small hill in warlike 



manner with their bowes and arrowes, whereupon they 



determined to retire to their boats, and to returne to 



their ships, and they were not gone from the sea-shore 



scarce a stones cast, but the Indians were come upon them 



to shoot at them with their arrowes, and because they 



were unarmed, they would not fight with them, having 



gone on shore for no other purpose, but to sound the 



mouth and enterance of that lake. On Thursday the 4 



of December we set saile with a fresh gale of winde, 



and sayled some 8 or 10 leagues, and came unto certaine 



[III. 411.] mouthes or inlets which seemed to all of us as though 



they had beene Hands, and we entered into one of them, 



Baya del and came into an haven which we called Baya del Abad 



a ts \oo ^11 inclosed and compassed with land, being one of the 



the point of fairest havens that hath beene scene : and about the same, 



California. especially on both sides the lande was greene and goodly 



to behold ; we discryed certaine rivers on that part which 



seemed greene, & therefore we returned backe, going 



out at that mouth wherby we came in, alwayes having 



contrary wind : yet the Pilots used their best indevour 



to make way : and we saw before us certaine wooddy 



hils, and beyond them certaine plaines ; this we saw from 



the Friday the 5 of the said moneth, untill the Tuesday, 



which was the ninth. As we drew neere to these woods 



they seemed very pleasant, and there were goodly and large 



hilles and beyond them towardes the sea were certaine 



plaines, and through all the countrey we saw these woods. 



Many great From the day before, which was the Conception of our 



^T T ] Lady, we saw many great smokes, whereat we much 



FrancisGualle iT^^rvelled, being of diverse opinions among our selves, 



maketh men- whether those smokes were made by the inhabitants of 



the countrey or no. Over against these woods there 



fell every night such a dew, that every morning when 



we rose, the decke of the ship was so wet, that untill 



the sunne was of a good height, we alwaies made the 



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