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this harbor of Galera Puerto de Todos Santos [Goxo Anchorage]. The following 

 Thursday they went to Pueblo de las Sardinas, where they were taking in water and 

 wood three days, and the natives of the country aided them and brought wood and 

 water to the ships. This village of the Puerto de Sardinas is called Cicacut, and the 

 others, which are from that place to Cabo de Galera are, Oiucut, Anacot 7 , Maquinanoa, 

 Paltatre, Anacoat, Olesino, Oaacat 8 , Paltocac, Tocane, Opia, Opistcpia, Nocos, Yutum, 

 Qui man, Micoma, Garomisopona. An old Indian woman is princess of these villages, 

 who came to the ships and slept two nights in the captain's ship, and the same did 

 many Indians. The village of Oiucut appeared to he capital of the other villages, as 

 they came there from other villages at the call of that princess ; the village which is 

 at the cape is called Xexo. From this port to Pueblo de las Canoas there is another 

 province which they call Xucu 9 ; they have their houses round and covered very well 

 down to the ground ; they go covered with skins of many kinds of animals ; they eat 

 oak acorns, and a grain which is as large as maize, and is white, of which they make 

 dumplings ; it is good food. They say that inland there is much maize, and that men 

 like us are traveling there ; this port is in 35§ degrees. 



Monday, the 6th of the said month of November, they departed from the said 

 port of Sardinas, and that day they made hardly any progress, and until the following 

 Friday they held on with very little wind. This day we reached Cabo de Galera ; 

 through all this course they could not avail themselves of Indians who came to board 

 them with water and fish and showed much good disposition ; they Lave in their villages 

 their large public squares, and they have an inclosure like a circle, and around the 

 inclosure they have many blocks of stone fastened in the ground, which issue about 

 three palms, and in the middle of the inclosures they have many sticks of timber 

 driven into the ground like masts, and very thick ; and they have many pictures on 

 these same posts, and we believe that they worship them, for when they dance they go 

 dancing around the inclosure. [See Introduction, Part I, page 27. j 



The Saturday following, the day of San Martin, on the 11th day of the said 

 month of November, they proceeded, sailing along the land, and they found themselves 

 this morning 12 leagues from the cape, in the same place where they arrived first [i. e. 

 off San Luis Obispo] ; and all this day they had a good wind so that they sailed along 

 a coast running northwest and southeast full 20 leagues ; all this coast which they 

 passed this day is a bold coast without any harbor, and there extends a chain (cordillera) 

 of sierras along the whole of it, very lofty, and it is as high by the sea as on the land 

 within ; the sea beats upon it [this description applies exactly to the coast between Cape 

 Saint Martin and Point Sur]; they saw no population nor smokes, and all the coast, 

 which has no shelter on the north, is uninhabited ; they named the sierras las Sierras 

 de San Martin ; they are in 37^ degrees ; the spurs of these and of the sierras on the 

 northwest form a cape which projects into the sea in 38 degrees ; they named it Cabo 

 de Martin [Point Sur]. This same night of Saturday, at four o'clock in the night, 

 being in the sea about 6 leagues from the coast, lying by waiting for the day, with a 

 southeast wind, so great a storm struck them from the southwest and the south-south- 

 west with rain and dark cloudy wea.ther, that they could not keep up a handbreadth 

 of sail, and it made them run with a small foresail, with much labor, all the night, and 

 the Sunday following the tempest fell upon them with much greater violence, which 

 continued that day and night until the following Monday at noon, and the storm was 



