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said month of' February, they again stood in shore to endeavor 

 to reach Cabo de Pinos, with the wind south-southeast, which 

 continued three days and was increasing each day." 



This brief search, wherein it is doubtful if tliey made 100 

 leagues from the islands, has led Kohl to make the unaccount- 

 able blunder of supposing that the six islands of the Santa 

 Barbara groups which Ferrelo mentions " were doubtless the 

 Sandwich islands ! '' If we suppose that the course made by 

 Ferrello was south, half way between Santa Cruz and San Nico- 

 las, he would probably have seen, in all, the islands of San Miguel, 

 Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, Santa Catalina (with Santa 

 Barbara in line and not distinguishable) and San Nicolas. He 

 could not have seen San Cleniente. Anacapa is small, but high, 

 and Santa Catalina would at that distance appear small. San 

 Nicolas would be seen moderately small, because he would make 

 it endwise. 



When the unusual " moderate wind from* the northeast ' 

 changed and the west-northwest wind came up with the large sea 

 always accompanying it, it is very unlikely that the ships pro- 

 ceeded even two hundred miles instead of one hundred leagues. 

 Moreover, whei> Ferrelo changed his course to make his land- 

 fall, and the south-southeast wind continued with increasing 

 force and with a necessaril}^ heavy and broken sea, he must 

 have made by his own account more than five hundred miles 

 in less than three days under short sail. He got sight of the 

 Cabo de Pinos, in latitude 38° 31', at daybreak on the 25th of 

 February. This alone should demonstrate the erroneousness of 

 Kohl's supposition. ^ 



When Ferrelo made the mountains behind Fort Ross at day- 

 break he continued his course to the northwestward, and the 

 vessel " at dusk Avas twenty leagues to windward on a coast run- 

 ing northwest and southeast, and it is bold and without shelter ; 

 there was no smoke seen on the land, and they saw a point 

 which formed the extremity of the land, which changed the 

 coast to the northwest;- in the middle of the night the wind 

 suddenly shifted to the south-southwest, and they run to the 

 wesf-northwest until day, and in the morning the wind shifted 

 to the west-southwest with great violence, which held on until 

 the following Tuesday [the 27th] ; they ran to the northwest." 

 This is Ferrelo's narrative, and he gives no latitude. The point 

 which he saw at dark was point Arena, in latitude 38° 57', where 



