BULLETIN 



ESSEIX: IIsrSTITTJTE. 



Vol. 17. Salem: Jan., Feb., Mar., 1885. Nos. 1-3. 



HUGO RIED'S ACCOUNT OF 

 THE INDIANS OF LOS .\NGELES CO., CALIFORNIA.' 



VSnTH NOTES 

 BY W. J. nOFFM.lN, M. D. 



The following epistles were copied by the writer during 

 the summer of the present year, 1884, from the original 

 MSS. in possession of the Hon. A. F. Coronel, of Los 

 Angeles, Cal., to whom they were written in the year 

 1852 by the late Hugo Ried from the San Gabriel Mission 

 where the author lived at that time. These epistles were 

 intended as a contributiou to " A History of the Indians 

 of Los Angeles Co.," but of the original thirty-two only 

 twelve refer to the subject in detail, the remainder con- 

 sisting of information relating to the establishment, and 

 decline, of the Franciscan Missions in California, facts 

 with which we are already familiar through other sources. 



Some of the epistles are variously signed "Hugo Ried," 

 and " P. Hugo Ried," though the writer could not ascer- 

 tain which was correct. The author, so Mr. Coronel 

 states, was a Scotchman of considerable intelligence, who, 

 after meeting Avith disappointment in an affaire de coeur 

 in Sononi, came to the San Gabriel Mission, married an 

 Indian woman of the tribe located there, and remained, 



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