48 EXPLORATION 
manana, y 4 las cinco de la tarde 
paramos en el Rio de la Assumpta 
[Rio de San Buenaventura], ha- 
viendo caminado unas diez y siete 
leguas, andando lo mas por la playa, 
y passando por las misma Rancherias 
de la ida; en una de las quales, vi 
que los Indios estaban tatemando una 
buena partida de langostas, econ al- 
gunos cangrejos grandes, que havian 
pescado entre unos pedrones que havia 
en la playa, y me regalaron una: yo 
la entregué al cozinero paraque la 
coziera ; y siendo assi que en el camino 
me havia dicho el S" Ansa, que era 
para él una comida muy regalada, y 
que le quadraban mucho, despues no 
quiso comer de ella, ni siquiera 
probarla por instancias que le hize, 
escusandose con decir que no era 
comida que el apeteciera y que temia 
le hiciesse dano: y no era sino que 
no la quiso probar porque me la 
havian dado 4 mi, porque era estilo 
suyo, que cosa que fuesse mia, 0 que 
me diessen 4 mi, la despreciaba, y 
desechaba, y mas antes queria que se 
perdiesse, como me sucedio con una 
talega de gigote preparado que yo 
llevaba, y por su respecto no me Ssirvi6 ; 
con una codorniz y un pato que me 
regalaron los Soldados; con un pedazo 
del pescado Tollo que me dieron en el 
Puerto dulce; y con unos quessos que 
me dieron en San Gabriel. Oy despues 
de parar logramos ver las Yslas de la 
Canal, que hasta ahora ni 4 la ida, 
ni a la buelta las haviamos podido 
ver claramente, sino muy en confuso y 
poco, por causa de las neblinas, que 
son en este mar muy continuas. Con 
esta ocasion las demarqué segun la 
fachada que hacian desde este parage 
de la Assumpta [San Buenaventura], 
y es la que aqui pongo: [fachada de 
las islas de Anacapa y de Santa Cruz| 
y observé que mirando al sur desde 
dicho parage, la Ysla mas grande, que 
es la de la Santa Cruz, caia al sudo- 
este, y las demas se venian siguiendo 
de ella hasta el sur; y advierto que 
todas estas Yslas estén unas seys U 
ocho leguas dentro de la mar, y son 
las que forman la Canal. 
OF BURTON MOUND 
[PTH. ANN. 44 
morning, and at 5 in the evening we 
stopped at the Rio de la Asumpta [San 
Buenaventura River], having traveled 
some 17 leagues, going for the most 
part along the shore and passing the 
same rancherias as on our trip up. In 
one of these I saw that the Indians 
were roasting a good bunch of craw- 
fish with some big crabs, which they 
had caught among some rocks on the 
shore, and they gave me one. I 
handed it to the cook for him to cook 
it, and, although Sr. Ansa had told me 
on the road that it was very good for 
a meal and that he was very fond of 
them, later he did not care to eat any 
of it, nor even to taste of it upon my 
insistence, excusing himself by saying 
that he had no appetite for it and that 
he feared that it would injure him; 
and the only reason was that he did 
not care to taste it because they had 
given it to me, for that was his style 
that anything that was mine or had 
been given to me he depreciated and 
declined and would sooner see it spoil, 
as it was in the case of a bag of pre- 
pared jigote which I had along and 
which on account of him did me no 
good, also a quail and duck which the 
soldiers gave me, also a piece of tollo 
fish which was given to me at Puerto 
Dulce, and some cheeses which they 
gave me at San Gabriel. To-day after 
going into camp we got to see the 
islands of the channel which until 
now we had not been able to see 
clearly either on the way up or back, 
but very faint and little, because of 
the fogs which are very continuous on 
this sea. On this occasion I drew 
them according to the outline which 
they present from this locality of La 
Asumpta [San Buenaventura] and I 
show it here [profile of Anacapa and 
Santa Cruz Islands]. And I observed 
that looking south from this place the 
largest island, which is Santa Cruz, 
lay southwest, and the others came 
following it to the south. And I note 
that these islands are some 6 or 8 
leagues out to sea and it is they that 
form the channel, 
