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islands which extend 4 leagues each one, and are 4 leagues from the continent. They 

 are uninhabited, because there is no water in them [the account is doubtless in error here; 

 these islands must be identical with others mentioned farther on as inhabited] and they have 

 good ports. The coast of the mainland runs west-northwest ; the country is level, with 

 many cabins and trees ; and the following Saturday they continued on their course, 

 and proceeded 2 leagues, no more, and they anchored opposite a valley very beauti- 

 ful and very populous, the land being level, with many trees. Here came canoes with 

 fish to barter ; they remained great friends. 



And the Sunday following, the 15th day of the said month, they held on their 

 voyage along the coast about 10 leagues, and there were always many canoes, for all 

 the coast is very populous, and many Indians were continually coming aboard the ships, 

 and they pointed out to us the villages and named them by their names, which are Xucu, 

 Bis, Sopono, Alloc, Xabaagua, Xotococ, Potoltuc, Xacbuc, Quelqueme, Misinagua, 6 

 Misesopano, Elquis, Coloc, Mugu, Xagua, Anacbuc, Partocac, Susuquey, Quamnu, Gua, 

 Asimu, Aguiu, Casalic, Tucuinu, Incpupu. All these villages extend from the first, 

 Pueblo de las Canoas, which is called Xucu, as far as this place ; they are in a very good 

 country, with very good plains and many trees and cabins ; they go clothed with skins; 

 they said that inland there were many towns, and much maize at three days' distance ; 

 they call the maize Oep ; and also that there were many cows.* They call the cows 

 Cae ; they also gave us notice of some people with beards, and clothed. They passed 

 this day along the shore of a large island which is 15 leagues in length, and they said 

 that it was very populous, and that it contained the following villages : Mquipos, Maxul, 

 Xugua, Xitel, Macamo, Ximitopal. They named the island San Lucas [Santa Rosa] ; 

 it is from this place to Pueblo de las Canoas 18 leagues ; the island is from the conti- 

 nent 6 leagues. 



Monday, the 16th day of the said month, sailing along the coast they proceeded 4 

 leagues, and anchored in the evening opposite two villages [Dos Pueblos] ; and also this 

 day canoes were continually coming to the ships, and they made signs that further on 

 there were canoes much larger. 



The Tuesday following, the 17th day of the said month, they proceeded 3 leagues 

 with fair weather, and there were with the ship from daybreak many canoes, and the cap- 

 tain continually gave them many presents ; and all this coast where they have passed is 

 very populous ; they brought them a large quantity of fresh sardines very good ; they say 

 that inland there are many villages and much food ; these did not eat any maize ; they 

 went clothed with skins, and wear their hair very long and tied up with cords very long 

 and placed within the hair, and these strings have many small daggers attached of flint 

 and wood and bone [many of which icere excavated by the survey party, in 1875, from 

 the graves]. The land is very excellent in appearance. 



Wednesday, the 18th day of the said month, they went running along the coast 

 untU 10 o'clock, and saw all the coast populous, and because a fresh wind sprung up 

 canoes did not come. They came near a point which forms a cape like a galley, and 

 they named it Cabo de Galera [Point Goncepcion], and it is in a little over 36 degrees ; 



*The animals here mentioned, and which were understood by the Spaniards to he cows, were 

 doubtless bisons, which formerly ranged to the eastern foot-hills of the Sierras, and accounts of which, if 

 not skins, must have reached the coast tribes. Although cows were introduced into the New World by 

 Columbus, and into Mexico as early as 1525, it was not until many years afterward, upon the perma- 

 nent settlement of California by the Spaniards, that these domestic animals found their way here. 



