IQ I. Gustav Eisen: 



Indians on. the Main opposite the Islands. 



Of these Indians we háve severalrath er exhaustive accounts prin- 

 cipally by some of the mission fathers. But these accounts tell us 

 exactly what we îeast désire to know, and of what we do wish to 

 know they telí us little. The ínissionaries had no other object in 

 view than to convert the heathens and to glorify Rome. In every 

 action of the Indians they saw only inspiration of the devil. Instead 

 of trying to uplift the Indians, they enslaved them ander a tyranical 

 yoke. The missionaries opinion of the Indians can not be accepted 

 without much modification and doubt. Of greater value are the very 

 scanty mentions of the Indians by the early navigators. Cabrillo refers 

 to the Indians of Santa Barbara several times. When he approached 

 the shore the Indians disembarked in their canoës which were made 

 of bent plank tied together with ropě and cemented with asphaltum. 

 Some of the canoës held up to 20 men. Everywhere Cabrillo teils 

 us that the Indians were well disposed, that they were armed with 

 bows and arrows and went clad in skins. At San Diego or Ensenada 

 they called the Spaniards „Cuacamal". 



Vancouver tells us that when he apprached land at Santa Bar- 

 bara, an Indián canoe was launched with four men. They had paddles 

 ten feet long, with blade at each end, and they managed the canoe 

 with such a skill that they brought out the admiration of the Spa- 

 niards. This was as latě as in 1838. The whole coast along the 

 Channel seems to háve been thickly populated. Cabrillo tells us „that 

 from morning to night the ship was surrounded by canoës. The In- 

 dians brought with them quantities of sardines : very good ; they say 

 that inland there are many villages and much food. The poeple do 

 not eat any maiz; they went clothed in skins, and wear their hair 

 very long and tied up with cords very long and placed within the 

 hair; and these strings háve attached to them daggers of flint, and 

 of wood and of bone". In an other place: „The natives aided in 

 bringing water and wood to the ship. The village is called Cicacut. 

 Other villages from that place to Cape Conception are called: „Ciucut, 

 Anacat, Maquinanoa, Palt-are, Anacvat, Olesino, Coaacac, Paltocac, 

 Tocane, Opia, Opistopia, Nocos, Yutum, Auiman, Micoma, Caromiso- 

 pona. An old indián woman is princess of those villages. She came 

 on the ship and slept there two nights together with other Indians. 

 The village of Ciucut appeared to be the capital of the villages. The 



