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shore ; but the latter they bring from a spring several miles 
distant. While thus engaged, they rejoice to see three of the 
pinnace’s crew approaching them. They relate that after 
weathering a very rough sea, and being several times in im¬ 
minent danger, they cast anchor at sunset in a large shallow 
bay, with two fathoms water, and went to rest. On the fol¬ 
lowing morning they were in a singular predicament for sea¬ 
men, out of sight—not of land—but of water!! The sea 
had retired. What should be done ? No water, either fresh 
or salt, was in sight, and the supply of provisions was very 
scanty. Some ofthem resolved therefore, to leave the pinnace 
in search of water and food. Finding none, however, and 
seeing nothing but famine and death before them, they con¬ 
cluded to travel down the coast to Yaqui. The pinnace, how¬ 
ever, was visited by another flood tide, which her exhausted 
crew improved to get her afloat. Her keel had been much 
damaged. This they repaired, and immediately laid their 
course for the bilander. Four days after leaving her unfor¬ 
tunate berth she rejoins her companion. They now determine 
to depart from this ungenerous region and its treacherous 
waters, where neither food^ fresh water, fuel nor home for 
man are to be found, but a mere wilderness of lonely shores. 
Somewhat disheartened by these unpropitious circumstances, 
Padre Ugarte, on the second of July, turns his prow westward 
for California. On the third day afterward he drops the 
anchor of the bilander and sends the pinnace ashore to talk 
with some Indians, who, at the sight of the fleet, have lined 
the shore, all armed in their native style. Before the men 
leave the pinnace the Indians draw a line on the sand, and 
intimate by signs it will not be safe for their visiters to cross 
it. A few presents, however, and some pantomiming, estab¬ 
lish affairs on a better footing. They conduct the Padres 
and people to their rancheria, at which is abundance of 
water. 
After remaining a short time with these savages, they 
journey about nine leagues along the coast and find five 
