MANNA 199 



Father Picolo made his observations, which does not, 

 however, preclude them from his territory. 



Father Picolo's range of observation never extended 

 north of Lower California, and, on the other hand, the 

 information we have of this California (which is really 

 a part of Mexico) is rather scant. 



The following publications present two sources of 

 information on Lower California: 



First: J. Ross Browne, Resources of States and 

 Territories West of the Rocky Mountains, New York, 

 1869, with an appendix, p. 630, on Lower California, 

 and with an historical addition, a Sketch of the Settle- 

 ment and Exploration of Lower California, by Alex. S. 

 Taylor. 



Description of Lower California by J. Ross Browne, 

 contains the following passage: 



Page 637, "Fields of sugar cane are too common to 

 excite remark, and the manufacture of sugar is one of 

 the most important interests of the southern part of 

 the peninsula. . . . The cane fields extend as far as the 

 eye can reach from San Jose"." (This place is situated 

 at the extreme southern coast.) "Sugar mills in Co- 

 mondu . . . sugar exported in Purisima." This does not 

 refer to the manna under discussion, and it will be 

 mentioned later that this sugar cane is not indigenous, 

 but was imported by later settlers. 



Second: Enclyclopcedia Britannica, ninth ed. On 

 California; makes mention of Lower California also, 

 introducing it as follows: 



"The interior of Lower California is chiefly known to 

 us as to its physical and geological structure, from a 

 reconnaissance made by Messrs. Gabb and Loehr of 

 the State Geological Survey of California, in 1867. 



