104 ALLAN HANCOCK PACIFIC EXPEDITIONS VOL. 1 



There are 2 miles of steep, rocky bluffs from the western entrance of 

 San FrancJsquito Bay to San Francisquito Point, where San Rafael Bay, 

 a large open bay, opens up. Its shores are mostly low and sandy, but 

 there are some rocky bluffs. It is 25 miles across the entrance. Three miles 

 farther on is Las Animas Point at the entrance to Las Animas Bay, an 

 indentation deeper than wide, 6V 2 miles across. Opposite San Rafael 

 Bay are the San Lorenzo Islands, three of them in a series from southeast 

 to northwest, the southernmost one, the largest, nearly 10 miles long. 

 Almost in line with these, but a little to the eastward, are Isla Raza, 

 quite small, Isla Partida, somewhat larger, and, finally, the large island, 

 Angel de la Guardia. 



Isla Raza, 1 1 miles off the mainland, % mile by y 2 mile, is whitened 

 with guano. Around it and also around Isla Partida are several outlying 

 rocks, some of them of considerable size. Isla Partida, 1*4 miles by y 2 

 mile, is 4% miles from Isla Raza, and 6 miles from the southern tip of 

 Angel de la Guardia Island. Both islands are rocky and barren. Between 

 them and around them there are, at times, strong currents and tide rips. 



Angel de la Guardia is a high, rocky, barren island, 42 miles long, 

 with a greatest width of 10 miles, separated from the mainland by Bal- 

 lenas Channel, with minimum width of 8 miles. The east side is deeply 

 indented, but the west side is more regular, bold, and rocky, with no 

 suitable anchorages. Four miles from the tip on the east side, the coast 

 extends outward to form a point that is connected by a reef, covered in 

 part, at high water, with Pond Island, 1 mile by % mile. Between Pond 

 Island and Rock Point, 13 miles to the northwestward, is an open bay, 

 and there is another between Rock Point and Bluff Point, 14% miles 

 farther on. Bluff Point is the tip of a bold, rocky headland, the north- 

 eastern extremity of the island. 



Nearly all the north end of the island is taken up with Puerto Refu- 

 gio, which consists of two well-separated harbors. The eastern harbor is 

 shut off to the northward, to some extent, by Granite Island, and the 

 western harbor entirely so by the larger island, Mejia; an island over 

 half a mile long, unnamed on the charts, separates the two harbors. The 

 port and its shores provide a great variety of conditions — sandy beaches, 

 rocky points, reefs, shoals, and deep water — and many picturesque views 

 to attract the photographer. 



The locations explored through collecting have been ( 1 ) the southern 

 area on the east side of Angel de la Guardia Island, from Pond Island 

 to the southern tip, and on to include the areas around Isla Partida and 



