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about IS leagues. They saw very beautiful valleys and groves, and a country flat and 

 rough, and they did not see Indians. 



On the Tuesday and Wednesday following they sailed along the coast about 8 

 leagues and passed by some three uninhabited islands.* One of them is larger than 

 the others, and extends 2 entire leagues, and forms a shelter from the west winds. 

 They are 3 leagues from the mainland; they are in 34 degrees. This day they saw 

 on land great signal smokes. It is a good land in appearance, and there are great 

 valleys, and in the interior there are high ridges. They called them Las Islas Desiertas 

 (the Desert Isles.) 



The Thursday following they proceeded about 6 leagues by a coast running 

 north-northwest and discovered a port inclosed and very good, to which they gave the 

 name of San Miguel [San Pedro Bay]. It is in 34^ degrees; and after anchoring in it 

 they went on shore, which had people, three of whom remained and all the others fled. 

 To these they gave some presents ; and they said by signs that in the interior had 

 passed people like the Spaniards. They manifested much fear. This same day at 

 night they went on shore from the ships to fish with a net, and it appears that there 

 were here some Indians, and they began to discharge arrows and wounded three men. 



The next day in the morning they entered further within the port, which is large, 

 with the boat, and brought away two boys, who understood nothing by signs, and 

 they gave them both shirts and immediately sent them away. 



And the following day, in the morning, there came to the ship three large In- 

 dians, and by signs they said that there were traveling in the interior men like us, 

 with beards, and clothed and armed like those of the ships, and they made signs that 

 they carried cross-bows and swords, and made gestures with the right arm as if they 

 were throwing lances, and went running in a posture as if riding on horseback, and 

 made signs that they killed many of the native Indians, and that for this they were 

 afraid. t This people are well disposed and advanced ; they go covered with the skins 

 of animals. Being in this port there passed a very great tempest, but on account of 

 the port's being good they suffered nothing. It was a violent storm from the west- 

 southwest and south-southwest. This is the first storm which they have experienced. 

 They were in this port until the following Tuesday. Here Christians were called 

 Guacamal. 



The following Tuesday, on the 3d day of the month of October, they departed 

 from this port of San Miguel, and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday they pro- 

 ceeded on their course about eighteen leagues along the coast, on which they saw 

 many valleys and much level ground and many large smokes, and, in the interior, 

 sierras. They were at dusk near some islands, which are about seven leagues from 

 the mainland, and because the wind was becalmed they could not reach them this 

 night. 



Saturday, the 7th day of the month of October, they arrived at the islands at 



•If the islands here mentioned still exist they doubtless are San Clemente and Catalina, the lat- 

 ter of which always appears to the passing mariner as two islands on account of a depression, which 

 has the effect of cutting it in two. Both these islands, however, were unquestionably inhabited by a 

 considerable population, as is evidenced by the extensive collections of implements, etc., recently made 

 here, many of them of considerable antiquity. Failing perhaps to discover smoke or other signs of 

 human habitation, the Spaniards took it for granted they were " uninhabited," and hence passed by 

 without landing. 



t Reference probably here made to Coronado's expedition in 1540. 

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