An Account of the Iudians of the Santa Barbara Islands in California. H 



author the island itself was known as Liniooh. The original authority 

 is Dot quoted. 



The island is 20 miles long and about 3V 2 miles wide. It is 

 2.410 feet high and visible some 55 miles. Of the natives of this 

 island neither Cabiïllo nor Viscaino give any account. The island has 

 once been thiekly populatëd as is shown by the many burial grounds. 

 Unfortunately the largest one of these was washed away in 1879 by 

 a destructive waterspout. 



Anacápa. The island of Anacápa is a mère rock, without har- 

 bor and even without water. No végétation can be seen from off Ihe 

 shore. It is the smallest of the islands of the Channel. It was called 

 by the indians „En ni-ah-pagh" and by Vancouver referred to as 

 Enneeapah. The présent name is probably a corruption of the ludian 

 name. The island is 4\/ miles long, and about 980 feet high. 



Santa Rosa Island. Named first by Cabrillo „San Lucas", but 

 later on during the return voyage referred to as San Sebastian. By 

 Viscaino the island was marked down on the chart as Isla de Cleto. 

 Accordîng to Cabrillo the Indians called the island „Nicalque". Ac- 

 cording to Bancroft the Indián name was „Hurmal". Cabrillo men- 

 tions that there are three villages on the island called: Nicocbi, 

 Coycoy, and Coloco. On the return voyage they are called „Nichochi" 

 and „Estocoloco". The island is 16V 4 miles long by 9 miles wide. Its 

 élévation is 1.500 feet. It contains about 50.000 acres of ground or 

 about 73 square miles. The average height is about 600 feet, and 

 the average length and width are 9 miles by 77 2 miles. This island 

 is apparently less suited to sustain life than Santa Cruz and Cata- 

 lina, but both accounts and investigations show that the Indián popu- 

 lation was once very numerous. The winds on the island are terrifie, 

 and there are at présent only few trees even in the ravines. Water 

 however is plentiful in certain parts, and dry seasons are scarce. 



At Cabrillo's visit the island was inhabited. „It is inhabited 

 and the people are like those on the other islands." Again we read: 

 The inhabitants of these islands are very poor. They are fishermen, 

 they eat nothing but fish; they sleep on the ground; ail their bu- 

 siness and employment is to fish. In each house they say there is 

 fifty soûls. They Jive very swinishly; they go naked." „There is a re- 

 gulär row of islands — — — . Some are large others are small, but 

 ail are inhabited and populous, and the inhabitants trade with each 

 other and with those on the continent. They are however very po- 

 pulous." In another place we read: „They found them (Santa Rosa 



