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EXPLORATION OF BURTON MOUND 
[ETH, ANN, 44 
Of passing Syujttin on the return journey Costans6 writes: 
Miercoles 10 de Enero.—Salimos de 
los Pueblos de la Isla con deseos de 
aleansar el de la Carpinteria, distante 
cinco leguas y media con la mira de 
dejar atras todos los embarazos de 
Ja canal, mientras la tierra se man- 
tenia seca y oreada: pasamos sin 
deteneros por el Pueblo de la Laguna 
[SyujtaQn], y Wegamos ya tarde al 
Pueblo de la Carpinteria, en cuia em- 
mediacion ocupamos el proprio campo, 
que en diez y siete de Agosto al subir 
por estas tierras. 
Ni en este ni en el de la Laguna 
[SyujtGn] huvo pescado, ya sea que 
los indios no se huviesen dedicado 4 
la pesca 6 que esta costa sea escasa 
de él, por este tiempo. 
Al Pueblo de la Carpinteria 5 leguas. 
De la Ensenada de Pinos 86% leguas. 
Wednesday, January 10—We_ set 
out from the Pueblos de la Isla, de- 
sirous of reaching the Pueblo de la 
Carpinteria, 5144 leagues distant, with 
the purpose of leaving behind all the 
obstructions along the channel while 
the ground was dried by sun and 
wind. We passed through the Pueblo 
de la Laguna [Syujttin] without stop- 
ping, and arrived quite late at the 
Pueblo de la Carpinteria, near which 
Wwe occupied the same camping-place 
as on August 17, when on our way 
up the country. 
There was no fish either in this 
town or in the Pueblo de la Laguna 
[SyujtGn]; it may be that the Indians 
have not applied themselves to fish- 
ing, or that this coast is without fish 
this season, 
To the Pueblo de la Carpinteria, 5 
leagues. From the Ensenada de 
Pinos, 86% leagues. 
Gaspar de Portolé in his own diary furnishes briefer information.’ 
El 16 [16 de Agosto, 1769] handu- 
vimos tres horas siempre por la orilla 
del mar, y emos parado en parage de 
poco pasto: en este parage hay un 
pueblo que tiene treinta y tantas casas 
hechas de tule, tiene este pueblo pas- 
sadas de 3800 personas, han acudido 
diferentes gentiles de las islas que te- 
nemos en frente; en este pueblo hay 
siete canoas bien construidas ocho 
varas de largo, una de ancho, y en lu- 
gar de clabos amarran las tablas con 
cordeles, y bien embreadas, nos regala- 
ron mucho pescado. 
El 17 [17 de Agosto, 1769] handu- 
vimos dos horas, buen camino, paramos 
en la orilla del mar, hay un pueblo 
que tenia 88 cassas, y como 300 per- 
sonas con sus siete canoas de madera, 
mui buenas, mucho pasto, y agua. 
The 16th [August 16, 1769|—We 
proceeded for three hours, the whole 
time along the beach, and have halted 
in a place where there is little pas- 
ture. In this place there is a town 
which has 80 or more houses made of 
rushes; the town has more than 300 
inhabitants. There have come [to our 
camp] some natives from the islands 
off the coast. In the town there are 
seven canoes, well built, eight yards 
in length and one in width, and, in 
lieu of nails, they fasten the boards 
with cords and pay them well with 
tar. They made us a present of many 
fish. 
The 17th [August 17, 1769].—We 
proceeded for two hours; a good road. 
We halted on the beach. [Here] there 
was a town which had 388 houses and 
about 300 inhabitants with 7 very fine 
eanoes of wood. Much pasture and 
water. 
7 Diary of Gaspar de Portol4 during the California Expedition of 1769-1770, edited by 
Donald Eugene Smith and Frederick J. Teggart, Academy of Pacific Coast History Publi- 
cations, vol. 1, No. 3, Berkeley, Calif., 1910, pp. 26-27, 47-48. 
