58 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



day of "Saint Mary, Queen of the Angels" ; the two priests celebrated it 

 in due form, and in their diaries they designated that camp by the calendar 

 day. This is how and when the place got its name of " Reina de L,os 

 Angeles." The river they called Rio Porciuncula. August 3d, they 

 marched through the Cahuenga pass to the Indian village of Cabueg-na ; 

 thence on up the south border of the upper Los Angeles valley through 

 Calabasas, and over to Hueneme which was then an Indian village on the 

 beach.* And so on westward. As the company was partly on foot and 

 partly on saddle beasts, they could readily follow the Indian paths from one 

 village to another. All this was of course before any of the California 

 Missions had been established. 



In January, 1770, Portola made the return trip eastward over the same 

 route ; but after crossing the Santa Clara river he mistook the trail and 

 wandered farther away from the coast than was intended, finally coming 

 through the Simi pass into the San Fernando valley, near where the village 

 of Chatsworth now stands, and thence across the valley to the region of 

 Pacoima or Dundee on the Southern Pacific R. R., vainly searching for the 

 Rio Porciuncula [Los Angeles river]. He was literally "lost," not knowing 

 how to find his way back to the trail of his outward march ; but he pushed 

 on eastward by way of Glendale and the lower part of Eagle Rock valley, 

 and found the fording place across the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza. The 

 stream was swollen with the winter rains ; he supposed it to be the Rio 

 Porciuncula again, and the priests so recorded it in their diaries. They 

 marched up across the lands where Lincoln Park and South Pasadena are 

 now located, and found there some Indian villages. His men were worn 

 out with hardships of roadless and trackless mountain travel ; their food , 

 supply was exhausted ; and they were indeed in a sorry condition. The 

 Indians here were the Hahamog-na clan and proved to be friendly ; so from 

 them they obtained some dried meat and meal of dried acorns, and halted 

 there a few hours for rest and recuperation. The old chief of this clan, 

 Hahamovic, gave the governor some of their native tobacco {^Nkotiana 

 Begelovii'] axid &vix6k&6i\he " peace pipe " with him. f 



In referring to this part of Portola's return march, Bancroft's Hist. Cal., 

 Vol. /, page 16^, foot-note, says : " They finally crossed by the modern stage 

 route via Simi. January i6th to i8th their route through the Los Angeles re- 

 gion was also different but not very clear. On the 17th they crossed the Rio Por- 



*■' Ishgua, or Ishguaget, was a rancheria [village] near the mouth of the Saticoy river and not far 

 from the beach. Hueneme was a rancheria on the ocean coast a few miles south of Saticoy river. " — 

 Ventura Mission records, quoted in Bancroft's "Native Races," p. 4S9- 



fThis wason January 17th, 1770. " The Capitan, filling his long stemmed pipe with leaves of the 

 wild tobacco, presented it to the Spanish officer, whose supply of the foreign weed had been long ex- 

 hausted. Thus the cousoHug ' Pespihuta,' the Indian name of this plant, became the foundation of a 

 lively traffic between the aborigines and Spaniards, who paid for it in trinkets and hea.<\%."'-.\-Irs.Jeanne 

 C.Carr, tn Hist. Los Ang. Co. [/.ezvis's), p. jij. 



"A speciesof tobacco is found on the sandy beaches which the Indians prepare and smoke.'' — Com. 

 IViikes's U. S. Exploring Expd.. Vol. V, p. 202. 



" They use a species ot native tobacco of nauseous and sickening odor." — Sc/ioolcraft's Archaeology, 

 Vol. Ill, p. 107. 



