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Ethnological remains. Of the early navigators only two háve anything 

 to say about the Indians of the Santa Barbara Islands. The first navi- 

 gátor to visit the coast of California was Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo. 

 That the account of Cabrillo's voyage is scant is probably due to the 

 fact that he died on the voyage, and was buriecl in the island now 

 known as San Miguel. There are three accounts left of bis voyage, 

 but it is not known by whom they were written. Two accounts agree 

 almost word for word, while the third appears to have been a Con- 

 densed narrative from some other document. 



Cabrillo sailed from the port of Navidad on the coast of Mexico 

 on June 27, 1542. After having reached the coast ofBaja California 

 he doubled Cabo San Lucas and proceeded up the coast of that pen- 

 insula. In the end of September he reached the bay of Ensenada 

 de Tod os Santos, which he named San Mateo. From Ensenada 

 he sailed along the coast north-west-wards and discovered the three 

 Coronado islands which he named „Las Islas Desiertas" on account 

 of their barren nature. On the mainland almost opposite these islands 

 he entered the port and harbor of San Diego, which he named San 

 Miguel. From this port Cabrillo sailed again along the coast and dis- 

 covered the two southern islands of the Santa Barbara group. The 

 island of Clemente he named Vittoria after one of his vessels, but 

 did not go ashore. The island of Catalina he named El Salvador after 

 the other vessel. Here he went ashore for a short time. Crossing 

 over to the mainland he entered Santa Monica bay naming it Bahia 

 de ios Fumos, on account of the many fires lit by the Indians. Off 

 and on Cabrillo spent considérable time exploring the coast along 

 the Santa Barbara Channel, evidently sailing up and down according 

 to the winds. He named many of the localities as for instance Pueblo de 

 las Canoas, Puerto de las Sardinas, Cabo de Galéra now Cape Con- 

 ception etc. 



During one of these cruises he crossed over to the nothern 

 islands which he named San Lucas. It appears that at first he mistook 

 Anacapa, Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa, and perhaps even San Miguel, 

 to be one single island. These islands overlap each other and from 

 a little distance they appear as one. When he finally found that 

 there were several islands he named the most north ern one Isla de 

 Posesion. After Cabrillo died his pilot in charge named this island 

 after hitn „Juan Rodriguez". The island of Santa Rosa was finally 

 referred to as „San Sebastian", while the island of Santa Cruz was 

 named Isla de San Salvador. This confusion is probably due either to 



