APPENDIX TO PART I, VOL. VII. 



TRANSLATION FROM THE SPANISH OF THE ACCOUNT BY THE PILOT 

 FERREL OF THE VOYAGE OF CABRILLO ALONG THE WEST COAST OF 

 NORTH AMERICA IN 1542. 



WITH INTRODUCTORY NOTES BY H. W. HENSHAW. 



In the following pages is presented a translation of tlie diary of the voyage of 

 Cabrillo made in 1542 along the west coast of North. America.. Although accounts of 

 this voyage appear in Spanish, notably that of Herrera, of which Burney* gives a 

 brief resume, it is believed that it is now for the first time published in English, t 



The translation was made by Mr. Richard Stuart Evans from a volume which 

 consists of a collection of documents made, by Buckingham Smith, from one of the 

 public libraries at Madrid. The full title of the volume is as follows : Coleecion | de 

 varios documentos | para la historia de la Florida | y tierras adyacentes. | Tomo I. | 

 En La Casa de Triibner y Compania, | Num. 60, Paternoster Bow, | Loudres. 



The chief value of this manuscript to the student of ethnology and archaeology 

 is due to the fact that it contains an account of the earliest contact of the white race 

 with the Indians of California. Additional interest is given to the narrative in its 

 present connection from the fact that the intercourse of the Spaniards with the natives 

 was principally with the tribes inhabiting the Santa Barbara Islands and the adjacent 

 mainland, or the people to whom the first part of this volume relates ; while the de- 

 scriptive portion of tlie narrative is closely connected with the places where were made 



* A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean, by James Burney. 

 Vol. I, pp. 220, 225. 



tThe following is a list of works, kindly furnished by Mr. H. H. Bancroft, of San Francisco, Cal., 

 which contain more or less extended references to Cabrillo's voyage: Brown, Explorations of Lower 

 California, pp. 18-19. — Capron, Hist. Cal., pp. 2, 121-2.— Famham, Life and Adventures in Cala.,p. 127. — 

 Findley, Directory, I, p. 314.— Forbes, Hist. Voy., p. 448-9.— Fuguet, La Cal., p. 9-26.— Gleeson, Hist. 

 Church, I, p. 70-2. — Greenhow, Oregon and Cal., pp. 61-3. — Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. VII, lib. V, cap. 

 III-IV. — Hutchings, Cal. Magazine, III, p. 146; IV, p. 547; V, p. 265. — De Mofras, Explorations, I, p. 96 ; 

 Montanus Neuwe en Onbekende Weereld, p. 210-1. — Murray, Travels in North Amer., II, pp. 79-80. — 

 Payne, in Loi Mex. Geog., II, pp. 199-200. — Roubaud, H., Les Regions Nou., p. 26. — Saint Amount, Voy. 

 Cal., p. 393.— Sutil y Mex., introd., XXIX-XXXVL— Taylor, in Cal. Farmer, April 18, 1862; May 4, 1860; 

 May 15, 1863; Aug. 14,21, 1863.— Clavigero Storia, I, p. 154-5.— Laet, Novus Orbis, p. 306-7.— Tytler, 

 Hist. Discov., p. 78-9.— Bnrney's, Voyages, I, p. 221-5. — Humboldt, Essai Politique, I, p. 329. — Marchand, 

 Voy., vol. I, p. viii. 



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