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day in their exciting discoveries. The two narratives had to be 

 collated and studied as a general statement; then every word 

 and idiomatic phrase had to be carefully weighed and defined. 

 The mistranslation of certain words in Cabrillo, Ferrelo and 

 Vizcaino had misled previous investigators. 



I based my translation of the narrative of Cabrillo upon the 

 condensed, unconnected and unsatisfying chapters of Herrera 

 corrected several mistakes and deciphered one or two obscure 

 passages. Ferrelo's narrative is in moderate detail, and presents 

 several critical passages where important issues are involved, 

 yet I feel satisfied that every case of doubt has been elucidated. 

 These two narratives are of unequal value. The original of Ca- 

 brillo has certainly been lost, and as he died during the explo- 

 ration the statements after the first ten days are extremely 

 meager. Discoveries like that of San Diego bay are not men- 

 tioned ; once there is a difference of date with Ferrelo, and 

 occasionally particular expressions are common to both narra- 

 tives. 



For Drake's share of discovery on this coast we have " The 

 World Encompassed," printed by the Hakluyt Society; the 

 "Arcano del Mare," of Dudley; the "English Hero," and later 

 productions. 



For the narrative of Vizcaino I have used the " Noticia de la 

 California," etc, by the Father Miguel Venegas, of which the 

 published English translation is unsatisfactory. 



So far as I have learned, there are no charts of Ulloa, Cabrillo 

 and Ferrelo extant. Learning that there was a manuscript 

 chart in the Royal Museum of Miinchen exhibiting the line of 

 coast as seen by Drake between latitudes 422-° and 38°, I ob- 

 tained full-sized photographs of this invaluable record, which 

 was evidently the basis for Dudley's chart of that part of the 

 coast in his "Arcano del Mare " of 1647. Except the orien- 

 tation of Drake's chart the shore-line from Rogue river, in 42J°, 

 to Drake's bay, under 38°, is remarkably consistent with the 

 general outline of the coast as laid down by the United States 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



From the British Museum I obtained tracings of the Portus 

 Novse Albionis of Drake, and part of the hemisphere whereon 

 is shown his northwesternmost position and the Crescent City 

 reef (the Dragon rocks of Vancouver), never before connected 

 with his landfall of the coast. 



