284 Life in the Open 



substitute without any of the discomforts, and the ride 

 down either end will linger long in your memory. 



Cabrillo is the site of one of the largest ancient In- 

 dian towns in California. It is a vast kitchen midden. 

 Houses and stables are built over mounds of bones and 

 abalones, and here tons of stone implements have been 

 dug up, and taken to the British and other museums in 

 England and America. As a pleasant diversion the 

 coach ride ends here ; the party may return by coach if 

 they wish, but the trip includes a trip back by launch, 

 fifteen miles down the north coast to Avalon, which 

 affords the coacher a complete view, near at hand, of the 

 attractive and picturesque coast, and enables him to see 

 the coach road over which he has passed from the ocean ; 

 caves which cut deep into the rock ; lofty cliffs, fair 

 reaches of mesa, lofty peaks and jumbles of hills, wind- 

 ing canons forming little beaches here and there, make 

 up the panorama as the yacht dashes along near the 

 rocks, over the famous tuna grounds that are known to 

 anglers the world over, finally reaching the vale of 

 Avalon in the afternoon, after a round trip of perhaps 

 forty miles through a region that has a most romantic 

 interest, being in 1540 the home of a vigorous race, 

 which, like the buffalo and other original inhabitants, 

 have long ago been wiped out of existence. 



This stage road has been extended five or six miles 

 north of Cabrillo, reaching Howland's, an attractive 

 little bay on the north-east coast near Ship Rock the 

 finest fishing ground about the island. Another fine 



