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able, however, to exclude hogs, for one could hardly 

 expect such pathfinders as Rivera's cowboys to drive 

 such agile leggy beasts as the hogs of that day 

 through such rough trail-less country as they tra- 

 versed. However, pigs probably came in the ships 

 which paralleled the land expedition, and came soon, 

 for Captain William Shaler of the Yankee ship 

 Leilia landed in San Pedro Bay in 1797 and "got 

 supplies for a full year, including many hogs and 

 sheep," which was, perhaps, the first export business 

 in California hogs. The missions had hogs, though 

 relatively so few that they were not often separately 

 noted in their inventories. There is, however, segre- 

 gation of the smaller animals in the statement that 

 at seventeen of the missions in 1825 there was a 

 total of 1000 hogs and 100,000 sheep. The ratio is 

 probably about correct. The Spanish derivatives did 

 not have all the early pigs. The Eussians at Fort 

 Ross in Sonoma County had hogs with their other 

 live-stock in 1812. From such sources, probably, 

 came the native Spanish hogs which the Americans 

 found here on their arrival, although it was said in 

 1860 that "the common hog of California was first 

 imported from the Sandwich Islands/' It is prob- 

 able that the common hogs came to California from 

 various sources. The character of all of them is 

 truthfully sketched in these words by C. H. Sessions, 

 formerly a prominent swine-grower in Los Angeles 

 County: "In former years, and in fact to the pres- 

 ent day, there can be found on ranches in California 

 numbers of the native Spanish hogs or 'razor-backs.' 



