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monized without straining. Many minor and interesting state- 

 liients noted in the narrations have been verified, such as the 

 seventeen villages which Ferrelo names from the Gaviota an- 

 chorage to point Conception. On the Coast Survery chart there 

 are seventeen arro3^os, where we found the remains of old ran- 

 cherias as we traveled this part of the coast in 1850. 



It is proper to mention that upon the return of the vessels to 

 the Santa Barbara islands in March, on their final retreat, the 

 confusion of new names to the islands was added ; but fortu- 

 nately I had learned from my colleagues, who had made the 

 detailed surveys of these islands, the advantages and disad- 

 vantages of the anchoring grounds around Santa Cruz and Santa 

 Rosa islands under different conditions of summer blows and 

 winter storms, and I am satisfied that the last anchorages of 

 these navigators have been identified. 



Of the identification of Drake's anchorages on the coast of 

 California and Oregon I have not spoken, because I propose to 

 elsewhere present a separate paper upon the former ; nor have 

 I referred specially to the accurate work of Vizcaino, but I may 

 mention that, upon the authority of his narrative, it has been 

 long"*asserted that a great forest covered the Tjoma that lies be- 

 tween San Diego bay and False bay to the northward. This 

 erroneous statement has arisen from the mistranslation of " el 

 monte," which in the narrative signifies a hill ; that is the point 

 Loma of the modern charts. 



Such instances as these have satisfied me that all the narrators 

 made truthful records, so far as they wrote, and this conviction 

 has enabled me to clearly explain in my monograph several 

 apparent inconsistencies in parts of Vizcaino's narrative. 



The mass of details presented in the monograph cannot be 

 given in this short paper, but I presented in the Report of the 

 United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1886, appendix No. 7, 

 a tabulation of the results, which establish the identification of 

 the seventy-one landfalls, capes, points, bays, anchorages and 

 islands mentioned by Cabrillo and Ferrelo. I also appended a 

 chart to exhibit in graphic and still more condensed form these 

 identifications. 



It will be noted that in this list and chart there is no mention 

 of the groups of the Farallones off the entrance to San Francisco 

 bay, although Cabrillo and Ferrelo must have seen them. Drake 

 mentions and names them ; Vizcaino has them on his chart, but 

 does not mention them in his narrative. 



