26 CHANNEL ISLANDS OF CALIFORNIA 



all their business and employment is to fish. In each house 

 they say there are fifty souls. They live very swinishly; they 

 go naked. They were in these islands from the twenty-third 

 of November to the nineteenth of January. In all this time, 

 which was almost two months, there were very hard wintry 

 storms on the land and sea. The winds which prevailed most, 

 were west-southwest, and south-southwest, and west-northwest. 

 The weather was very tempestuous." 



