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there was no viewing it with your Eyes, without rai- 
ling a Sadnefs in your Heart. 
' ' ' I I n il ■■ I I II , 
VII. An Ext raft of a l/iemoir^ concerning theDi/co^ 
Very of a ^affage hy Land to California 5 it?ith a 
ivfap and Defeription of that Country, ^refented 
to the Royal Council of Guadalaxara in Mexico, 
hy Francis Maria Picoloi Taken- from the Let- 
ters of the MiJfionaryfefuitSy printed atV^.xls, 
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GuAdiilaxitra^ February 10, 1702. 
My Lords^ 
I N Obedience to the Orders you feme Days ago ho- 
noured me with, I fhall give you an Exaa and 
Faithful Account of tile Difeoveries and Settlements, 
that Father de Salvatierr/t2in^ my felf have made in O- 
Hforma^ for thefe 'five Years paft, that we have been in 
this large Country. 
AVe imbarked in i6‘97, and pafled the Sea 
that feparates C aliform a from New Mexico-, As foon as 
wefet Foot on Land, the People being ignorant of our 
Defign, (as not underftanding our Language, or we 
theirs) imagining that we came to take from them their 
Pearl Fifliery, as had been attempted feveral times be- 
fore by others, came, in great Multitudes againft us, who 
had but an inconfiderable Number of Spaniards to de- 
fend us. The Y iolence with which they attack’d us, and 
multitude of Darts and Stones they threw at us, our 
Soldiers fuftained fovigoroufly, that they beat ’em back 
with Suctefs; and foon put them to flight. 
Thofe 
