24 CHANNEL ISLANDS OF CALIFORNIA 



"The Tuesday following, the seventeenth day of the said 

 month, they proceeded three leagues with fair weather; and 

 there were with the sliip from daybreak many canoes; and the 

 Captain continually gave them many presents; and all this 

 coast where they have passed is very populous; they brought 

 them a large quantity of fresh sardines very good; they say 

 that inland there are many villages and much food; these did 

 not eat any maize; they went clothed with skins, and wear 

 their hair very long and tied up with cords very long and placed 

 within the hair; and these strings have many small daggers 

 attached of flint and wood and bone [many of which were exca- 

 vated by the survey party in 1875, from the graves]. The 

 land is very excellent in appearance. 



"Wednesday, the eighteenth day of the said month, they 

 went running along the coast until ten o'clock, and saw all the 

 coast populous; and, because a fresh wind sprung up, canoes 

 did not come. They came near a point which forms a cape 

 hke a galley, and they named it Cabo de Galera [Point Con- 

 cepcion], and it is in a little over 36 degrees; and because there 

 was a fresh northwest wind they stood off from the shore and 

 discovered two islands, the one large, which has 8 leagues of 

 coast running east and west [Santa Rosa], but with only 5 

 leagues of coast running as described; the other has 4 leagues 

 [San Miguel], with only 2 leagues, and in this small one there 

 is a good port [Cuyler's Harbor], and they are peopled; they 

 are 10 leagues from the continent; they are called Las Islas de 

 San Lucas. [The name is here appHed to but two islands, 

 but subsequently the whole group appears to have been thus 

 designated.] From the mainland to Cabo de Galera it runs 

 west by northeast; and from Pueblo de las Canoas to Cabo 

 de Galera there is a very populous province, and they call it 

 Xexu; it has many languages different from each other; they 

 have many great wars with each other; it is from El Pueblo 

 de las Canoas to El Cabo de Galera 30 leagues; they were in 

 these islands until the following Wednesday, because it was 

 very stormy. 



"Wednesday, the twenty-fifth of the said month, they 

 departed from the said islands, from the one which was more 

 to the windward; it has a very good port, so that from all the 



