HARRINGTON | 
de la misma construccion que las del 
primer pueblo que tiene un buen arro- 
yo de agua corriente buena que va 
4 dar 4 la mar, aunque poco antes 
por un altito que tiene se represa y 
forma como estero; pegado 4 la ran- 
cheria no tiene tierras 4 la orilla del 
mar sino para formar el pueblo. Los 
cerros que tiene 4 sus inmediaciones 
son de buena tierra y empastados de 
buen zacate. No sé si arriba habra 
arroyo por abras hacen los cerros 6 
si tendri llanos; es necesario regis- 
trarlo que teniéndolos podria ser bueno 
para mision; son los indios muy 
déciles y afables, reparamos que tenian 
en la mar siete canoas que estaban 
pescando. En cuanto legamos vino 
toda la gente 4 visitarnos y nos tra- 
jeron mucho pescado tlatemado 6 
azado para que comiésemos mientras 
llegaban las canoas con pescado fresco 
las que en breve abordaron 4 la playa 
y de alli 4 poco trajeron mucha 
abundancia de Bonitos y Meros que 
nos regalaron y ofrecieron en tanta 
eantidad que hubiéramos podido car- 
gar la recua si hubiéramos tenido 
proporcion de prepararlo y salarlo; 
diéronnos 4 mas de lo dicho pescado 
seco sin sal (que no usan ellos en 
sus comidas) que llevamos 4 preven- 
cion y sirvid para el viaje de mucho 
recurso; uno de los capitanes de este 
pueblo se hallaba en el de la Asumpta 
cuando pasamos y fué el que mas se 
esmer6 en obsequiarnos; es hombre 
formado de buen talle y fisonomia 
regular, gran bailarin, por cuyo mo- 
tivo nombraron los soldados 4 su 
pueblo del Bailarin, mientras que yo 
lo nombré con el de Santa Clara de 
Monte Talco: tomé la altura y me 
sali6 de treinta y cuatro grados 
cuarenta minutos. La caja del arroyo 
de este pueblo tiene mucha arboleda 
de sauces, 4lamos, alisos y encinos. 
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than that of La Asuncién [San Buena- — 
ventura], for we counted sixty houses, 
well fashioned, of the same construe- 
tion as those of the first village, and 
which has a good creek of good flow- 
ing water which empties into the sea, 
although a little before doing so it is 
dammed up by an elevation which 
there is and forms a sort of estero; 
next to the rancheria there are no 
lands at the beach except those which 
form the village. The hills which 
there are in the vicinity are of good 
soil and are grassed over with good 
feed. I do not know whether up- 
stream in the gaps made by the hills 
there is merely a creek or maybe 
plains. It is necessary to investigate, 
and if there are plains it might be 
good for a mission. The Indians are 
very docile and affable. We found 
that they had on the sea seven canoes. 
which were fishing. As soon as we 
arrived all the people came to visit us, 
and brought much roasted or baked 
fish for us to eat until the boats came 
in with fresh fish, and these shortly 
lunded on the beach, and from them 
after a little they brought a great 
abundance of bonitos and jewfish, 
which they gave us, and offered us in 
such quantity that we would have been 
able te load the animals if we had had 
opportunity to prepare and salt it. 
They gave us, in addition to the above, 
dried fish without salt (which they do 
uot use in their food) ; which we took 
along asa precaution and which was of 
much help on the journey. One of the 
captains of this rancheria was in La 
Asumpta [San Buenaventura] when 
we passed through, and it was he who 
took most pains to be obsequious to 
us. He is a man of good build and 
regular features, a great dancer, for 
which reason the soldiers dubbed his 
rancheria that of the dancing man, 
while I named it Santa Clara de Mon- 
tefalco. I took the latitude and it 
gave the result of 34° 40’. The creek 
bed of this rancheria has much tree 
growth of willows, cottonwoods, syca- 
mores, and live oaks, 
