VOYAGE OF CABRILLO. 31 1 



we saw no Indians, because of the coast's being bold and without harbor and ragged ; 

 and on the southeast side of Cabo de Martin for 15 leagues they found the country 

 inhabited, and many smokes, for the land is good ; but from el Cabo de Martin as far 

 as to 40 degrees we saw no sign of Indians. El Cabo de San Martin is in 37£ degrees. 



While wintering in this Isla de Posesion [San Miguel], on the 3d day of January, 

 1543, departed from this present life Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, captain of the said 

 ships, from a fall which he had on the same island at the former time when they were 

 there, by which he broke an arm near the shoulder. He left for captain the chief pilot, 

 who was one Bartolome Ferrelo, a native of the Levant ; and he charged them much 

 at the time of his death that they should not give up the discovery, as far as possible, 

 of all that coast. They named the island la Isla de Juan Rodriguez.* The Indians 

 call this island Liquinmymu, and another they call Eicalque, and the other they 

 call Lima. In this island de la Posesion there are two villages ; the one is called 

 Zaco 10 and the other Nimollollo. On one of the other islands there are three vil- 

 lages; one they call Xichochi, and another Coy coy, and the other Estocoloco. On 

 the other island there are eight villages, which are, Miquesesquelua, Poele, Pisqueno, 

 Pualnacatnp, Patiquiu, Patiquilid, Ninumu, Muoc, Pilidquay, Lilibeque. 



The Indians of these islands are very poor. They are fishermen; they eat noth- 

 ing but fish; they sleep on the groimd; all their business and employment is to fish. 

 In each house they say there are fifty souls. They live very swinishly; they go naked. 

 They were in these islands from the 23d of November to the 19th of January. In all 

 this time, which was almost two months, there were very hard wintry storms on the 

 land and the sea. The winds which prevailed most were west-southwest and south- 

 southwest and west-northwest. The weather was very tempestuous. 



Friday, the 19th day of the month of January, 1543, they set sail from the island 

 of Juan Rodriguez, which is called Liquimuymu by the natives [San Miguel], to go to 

 the mainland in quest of some supplies of provisions for their voyage, and in leaving 

 the port a heavy storm from the west- north west struck them, which made them put into 

 the other island of San Lucas, and they anchored off the island of Limun, to which they 

 gave the name of San Salvador [Santa Cruz], and they found it necessary to weigh 

 anchor again because it had no port more under the shelter of the islands, and the 

 wind veered round obliquely, and they sailed round these islands eight days with the 

 •winds very foul, sheltering themselves by the islands from the bad weather ; and on 

 the 27th day of the said month they entered the same port of the island of Juan Rod- 

 riguez where they were before. The greatest obstacle they had was because the 

 winds were not fixed, but went veering about from one to another. Those which are 

 most constant are from the west-northwest and from the west-southwest. 



Tuesday, the 29th day of the said month of January, they departed from the island 

 of Juan Rodriguez [San Miguel] for the island of San Lucas [Santa Rosa here intended; 

 although the confusion resulting from the Spaniards' having named and renamed certain 

 ones of the group renders it difficult to fix them with precision], which is in the middle of 

 the others, to take up certain anchors which they had left in a storm, not being able 

 to raise them, which they took, and took in water. 



* The three centuries and more that have elapsed have witnessed great changes in the appearance 

 of the island of San Miguel, evidently then well populated. It has become barren and desolate in the 

 extreme by reason of the drifted sand, which lies on it to the depth of many feet, and which will 

 doubtless always preserve the secret of Cabrillo's grave. 



