HISTORY OF THE BURTON MOUND 
Earuiest History 
There is abundant evidence, traditional, historical, and archeo- 
logical, that the large Indian village at Santa Barbara was at the 
beach, at the old Puerto de Santa Barbara or early landing place at 
the foot of the present Chapala Street, 
west of the mouth of Mission Creek and / XOCe Lo c/ 
due east of and comprising the Burton 
Mound. The Indian informants have 
given the name of this village as g 
Syujttin (fig. 1). meaning “where the wae Cl UCL o/ 
two trails run.” “UY 
One of the most interesting matters in 
California archeology and ethnology ik CU772 
will always remain the recording of «ho ws 
Santa Barbara Channel place names by 
the Cabrillo expedition of 1542. Al- a 
though it has never before been pointed uUucuUue 
out, the Indian name of the village at 
the Puerto de Santa Barbara occurs in 5, 4 ne four + cisslivleudenbes 
the Relation of the Voyage of Cabrillo.’ rences of “ Syujttn,” the native 
, 2 o a " name of the Burton Mound vil- 
Indeed, it may be mentioned in that Pao Liahtie ye cisinaihmn Anette 
document no fewer than four times, of the Relation of the Voyage of 
: Oe OS Tie y Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo in the 
with the additional information that ee Gee akc Tacs 
the village appeared to be a capital. Seville, Spain. 
MENTION OF SYUJTUN IN THE RELATION OF THE VOYAGE OF CABRILLO, 1542 
The first list of place names given in the Cabrillo account? starts 
with El Rincon, naming in upcoast direction : 
Xuco [Cukuw, at El Rincén Creek]. 
Bis, Sopono [Mishopsnéw, at La Carpinteria Creek ]. 
Alloc [K’olox, at El Toro Creek]. 
Xabaagua [Shalwaj, El Montecito]. 
Xocotoe [Syujttin, El] Puerto de Santa Barbara]. 
In a subsequent list of mainland coast rancherias,? jumbled in 
arrangement and with rementionings like the first list, the name 
1Relacién 6 Diario de la Navegacién que hizo Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, in Buckingham 
Smith, Coleccién de Varios Documentos para ja Historia de la Florida y Tierras Adya- 
centes, London, 1857, pp. 173-189. Egnlish translations by R. S. Evans in George M. 
Wheeler, Report upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, 
vol. 7, Washington, 1879, pp. 293-314; and by Herbert BH. Bolton in his Spanish Explora- 
tion in the Southwest, New York, 1916, pp. 1-39. 
?TIbid., p. 181. 
$Ibid., p. 183. 35 
