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raAP. man tic scenery of the forests. Soldiers were immediately sent in pur- 
suit, when, after a week's search, the fugitives were brought back ; upon 
^826 padre Arroyo, to punish their misbehaviour, incarcerated them 
together, and kept them thus confined until he thought they had ex- 
piated their crime. 
In addition to his other manifold accomplishments, padre Arroyo 
was a grammarian, and said that he had written a vocabulary and gram- 
mar of the Indian languages, but he could not be prevailed upon to 
show them ; such works, were they in existence, would, I believe, be 
the only ones of the kind ; and it is a pity that they should not be 
given to the world as a matter of curiosity, though 1 cannot think they 
would be of much use to a traveller, as the languages of the tribes differ 
so materially, and in such short spaces, that in one mission there were 
eleven totally dififerent dialects. 1 cannot omit to mention padre Ar- 
royo’s disquisition on the etymology of the name of the Peninsula of 
California. I shall observe first, that it was never known why Cortes 
gave to the bay* which he first discovered, a name which appears to 
be composed of the Latin words calida onAfornax, signifying heat and 
furnace, and which was afterwards transferred to the peninsula. Miguel 
Venegas supposed it arose from some Indian words which Cortes mis- 
understood, and Burney, in his history of voyages in the Pacific f, 
observes, that some have conjectured the name to have been given on 
account of the heat of the weather, and says, it has been remarked 
that It was the only name given by Cortes which was immediately derived 
from the Latin language. Without entering into a discussion of the 
subject, which is not of any moment, I shall observe, that it was thought 
111 Monterey to have arisen in consequence of a custom which prevails 
throughout California, of the Indians shutting themselves in ovens until 
they perspire profusely, as I have already described in speaking of the 
Temeschal. It is not improbable that the practice appeared so singular 
to Cortes that he applied the name of California to the country, as being 
one in which hot ovens were used for such singular purposes. Padre 
* ^ernal Diaz de Castillo, in his » Conquest of Mexico,” calls California a bay. 
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