BULLETIN 



USTSTITTJTIE. 



VOL. 17. SALEM: JAN., FEB., MAR., 1885. Nos. 1-3. 



HUGO RIED'S ACCOUNT OF 

 THE INDIANS OF LOS ANGELES CO., CALIFORNIA. 1 







WITH NOTES 

 BY W. J. HOFFMAN, M. D. 



THE following epistles were copied by the writer during 

 the summer of the present year, 1884, from the original 

 MSS. in possession of the Hon. A. F. Coronel, of Los 

 Angeles, Cal., to whom they were written in the year 

 1852 by the late Hugo Kled from the San Gabriel Mission 

 where the author lived at that time. These epistles were 

 intended as a contribution to " A History of the Indians 

 of Los Angeles Co.," but of the original thirty-two only 

 twelve refer to the subject in detail, the remainder con- 

 sisting of information relating to the establishment, and 

 decline, of the Franciscan Missions in California, facts 

 with which we are already familiar through other sources. 



Some of the epistles are variously signed "Hugo Kied," 

 and " P. Hugo -Ried," though the writer could not ascer- 

 tain which was correct. The author, so Mr. Coronel 

 states, was a Scotchman of considerable intelligence, who, 

 after meeting with disappointment in an affaire de cceur 

 in Sonora, came to the San Gabriel Mission, married an 

 Indian woman of the tribe located there, and remained, 



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