THE LOG OF CABRILLO 25 



storms of the sea no damage will be suffered by those within 

 its shelter; they called it La Posesion [San Miguel previously, 

 with Santa Rosa, called Las Islas de San Lucas]. 



"Thursday, on the twenty- third day of the month, they 

 approached on a backward course the islands of San Lucas 

 [the group, collectively, here meant], and one of them named 

 La Posesion {San Miguel]; and they ran along all the coast, 

 point by point, from El Cabo de Pinos to them, and they found 

 no harbor, so that of necessity they had to return to the said 

 island, on account of having these days a very high west- 

 northwest wind, and the swell of the sea was very great. From 

 Cabo de Martin to Cabo de Pinos we saw no Indians, because 

 of the coast's being bold and without harbor and rugged; and 

 on the southeast side of Cabo de Martin for 15 leagues they 

 found the country inhabited, and many smokes, for the land 

 is good; but from El Cabo de Martin as far as to 40 degrees 

 we saw no sign of Indians. El Cabo de San Martin is in 37^ 

 degrees. 



"While wintering in this Isla de Posesion [San Miguel], on 

 the third day of January, 1543, departed from this present 

 life Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, captain of the said ships, from a 

 fall which he had on the same island at the former time when 

 they were there, by which he broke an arm near the shoulder. 

 He left for captain the chief pilot, who was one Bartolome 

 Ferrel, a native of the Levant; and he charged them much 

 at the time of his death that they should not give up the dis- 

 covery, as far as possible, of all that coast. They named the 

 island La Isla de Juan Rodriguez [Cabrillo]. The Indians 

 call this island Liquimuymu, and another they call Nicalque, 

 and the other they call Limu. In this island De la Posesion 

 there are two villages; the one is called Zaco and the other 

 Nimollollo. On one of the other islands there are three vil- 

 lages; one they call Nichochi, and another Coycoy, and the 

 other Estocoloco. On the other island there are eight villages, 

 which are, Miquesesquelua, Poele, Pisqueno, Pualnacatup, 

 Patiquiu, Patiquilid, Ninumu, Muoc, PiUdquay, Lihbeque. 

 [The sites of many of these have been examined by the author.] 



"The Indians of these islands are very poor. They are 

 fishermen; they eat nothing but fish; they sleep on the ground; 



