VOYAGE OF CABEILLO. 301 



This port is in 2SJ long degrees, (a little over 28J degrees) ; the land is high and rugged 

 and bare ; from California to this place we have seen no Indian. 



"Wednesday, on the 2d of the said month, they departed from this port, and the 

 wind was contrary, and they proceeded beating ; they cast anchor at an island which 

 is i leagues [actually 3] distant from the southeast side of the island of Zedros, and 

 they named this island San Esteban [NaMvidad], With the extremity of the point of 

 the mainland running east and west, the coast is northwest and southeast ; it is a 

 league from the mainland ; from this point [Point Eugenio] the mainland turns the 

 coast towards the northeast and makes a large creek, so that the land does not appear. 

 Between the island and the mainland there is a good channel, and they had to pass 

 close to the island, for there are shoals which extend in a ridge from the point for a 

 quarter of a league. There is much vegetation on the water, which grows from the 

 bottom and is tangled beneath the surface [kelp]. This island [i. e. Watividad] runs 

 with San Pedro Vincula northwest and southeast; this island has 3 leagues in 

 compass. We were at this island with the wind contrary until the following Saturday, 

 the 5th of the said month of August. It has a good port on the side of the southeast. 

 There is much fishing with a hook, and many birds are found. 



They departed from the island of San Esteban Saturday, the 5th of August, and 

 anchored at the island of Zedros [Cerros Island], where they remained until Thursday, 

 the 10th of the said month, taking in water and wood. They found no Indians, 

 although they found some sign of them. The leeward point of this island on the south 

 side is in 29 degrees, and it has on this south side good ports and water and wood, and 

 it is on this part bare, as it has only some small shrubs [so at. present]. The island is 

 large and high and bare, and runs almost east and west [at present north and south], 

 and is on this side of the south 12 leagues in length [the island is much smaller than 

 is here given]. . 



They departed from the island of Zedros on Thursday, the 10th day of the said 

 month of August, to pursue their voyage, and proceeded on the side of the mainland, 

 sailing to the north. They went this day about 10 leagues, and the following Friday 

 cast anchor in a port which they called Puerto de Santa Clara [Playa Maria Bay] ; it 

 is a good port. "They landed and found four Indians, who fled. This port is in 30 

 degrees scant ; it runs with the island of Zedros, northeast and southwest, and this 

 coast runs from the port towards the creek north-northwest and south-southeast. 

 The coast is clean and soundable ; the land is bare and is not rugged. It has plains 

 and valleys. They were in this port until Sunday, the 13th of the said month, on 

 account of foul winds. 



Sunday, the 13th of the said month, they departed from this port and went sail- 

 ing along the coast with slack winds, anchoring each night; and the following Tuesday 

 they cast anchor on a point which forms an inlet, which is in 30J degrees' 1 ; it affords 

 very little shelter; they called it Punta del Mai Abrigo (Point of Bad Protection) 

 [Point Canoas]. 



The Wednesday following they were sailing along the coast, and had a heavy 

 northwest wind, which was contrary, and they lay by at night without making any 

 progress; and the following Thursday they held on with heavy rains and adverse 

 winds and calms, so that they made no headway, and this following night they had 

 much wind from the west-northwest, and lay by ; and the following Friday they pro- 



