Part 7
[Footnote 7: Prof. George Davidson identifies the Rio de los Reyes as Rogue River in 42 deg. 25'.]
[Footnote 8: About Cape San Quintin, the latitude of their northernmost mission.]
[Footnote 9: Instruccion qua ha de observer el Teniente de Infanteria. Dn Pedro Pages, 5 enero de 1769. Provincial State Papers; i, 38.9, Ms. Spanish Archives of California.]
[Footnote 10: So-called from the cuera, a leathern jacket worn by them as a defensive armor.]
[Footnote 11: Out West. March-July, 1902.]
[Footnote 12: Pancakes.]
[Footnote 13: Dead Men's Point. The name has disappeared from the modern maps, but is found on all of the old ones. It is the foot of H street where the cars for the Coronado ferry turn on to the wharf.]
[Footnote 14: I am well aware that this claim will be disputed by one whose study of original documents and power of analysis make him perhaps the greatest authority on early California History; but I am nevertheless prepared to maintain my position.]
[Footnote 15: Carga, 275 lbs.]
[Footnote 16: Hence the presidial soldiers were called Soldados de Cuera and so distinguished from soldiers of the regular army.]
[Footnote 17: Diario Historico de los viages de Mar y de tierra hichos al norte de la California. Ms. Original in Sutro Library.]
[Footnote 18: The league is the Spanish league of 5,000 varas. 2.63 miles.]
[Footnote 19: They also gave it the name of Santa Ana, whose day, July 26th, they had just observed.]
[Footnote 20: Sometimes called the Grand Pardon of Assisi--the great indulgence of the Franciscans. Originally granted to St. Francis for the Church of Our Lady of the Angeles of Porciuncula, it was, by apostolic indult, expanded to accompany the child of St. Francis wherever he may be. It is enough for him to erect an altar and that altar will be to him St. Mary of the Angels, and he will there find the Porciuncula of the revelations. Whoso confesses and receives the sacrament in the church of Porciuncula is granted plenary remission of his sins in this world and the next. This indulgence is only for August 2nd--that is, from the afternoon of August 1st until sunset of August 2nd.]
[Footnote 21: It is to this incident that the city of Los Angeles owes its name. The full baptismal name of the city is Nuestra Senora La Reina de los Angeles--Our Lady the Queen of the Angels. It was founded in 1781, by royal order, the second pueblo established in California.]
[Footnote 22: Rancheria is the name given to an Indian village or town.]
[Footnote 23: The Valley of the Bears.]
[Footnote 24: The diarists applied the word canada to either a canon or an open valley.]
[Footnote 25: The word ensenada, much used by the Spanish explorers, means a bight or open roadstead, not an enclosed and protected bay.]
[Footnote 26: "Transportar en Xamus al Modo que cominan las mujeres en Andalucia," Crespi: Palou's Noticias de la Nueva California, ii. 181.]
[Footnote 27: The names given on this portion of the route have all disappeared, but are here given as a suggestion to the Ocean Shore Railroad.]
[Footnote 28: The Fleas.]
[Footnote 29: It must be borne in mind that what they called the Bay or Port of San Francisco was that stretch of water reaching from Point Reyes to Point San Pedro and later known as the Gulf of the Farallones.]
[Footnote 30: Professor George Davidson says that what was seen by Portola from the Montara mountains was the break in the Ballenos cliffs, a deep narrow valley which runs straight from Ballenos bay to Tomales bay, fourteen miles.]
[Footnote 31: The Golden Gate and Bay of San Francisco.]
[Footnote 32: The Bay of San Francisco continued to be called the "Estero," until some time after Colonel Anza established the presidio and mission of San Francisco in 1776.]
[Footnote 33: The present name, Canada de San Andres, was given by Rivera, Nov. 30, 1714.]
[Footnote 34: On November, 1774, Rivera came up the peninsula on an exploring expedition and on the spot where he had camped with the first expedition in 1769, he planted a cross to mark the place for a mission. In March, 1776, Col. Juan Bautista de Anza, coming to select sites for the Presidio and Mission of San Francisco, notes this cross on the bank of the Arroyo de San Francisco (now San Francisquito creek), about one hundred paces above the great redwood tree, and says the plan for a mission there was abandoned because the creek was dry in summer. I note this explanation because an excellent authority has located Portola's camp on Redwood creek.]
[Footnote 35: I give to Ortega the credit of discovering the Golden Gate and the Straits of Carquinez. The testimony seems sufficient to me.]
[Footnote 36: Vizcaino to the King, May 23, 1603. Pub. Hist. Socy. of Southern California, Vol. ii, Part 1.]
[Footnote 37: On the day of the Holy Innocents it was not possible to say mass. We are sorry for it, because it is the only feast day in all the journey up to the present that we have been without mass. We are stuck in a mud hole and are unable to move from the place where we are all wet through, and it is not possible to make a journada to a plain that is dry for this is bubbling up water--Crespi, Diario.]
[Footnote 38: Crespi: Diario.]
[Footnote 39: Palou: Noticias de la Nueva California.]
[Footnote 40: Invernate--to winter.]
[Footnote 41: Manuel Orozco y Berra, Apuntes Airs. la Historia de la Geografia an Mexico, Anales del Ministerio de Formento de la Republica Mexicana Tomo VI, p. 269. Documents in the Archives of the Indies, Seville.]
[Footnote 42: This is a summary of the document. A full translation would be too tedious for a work of this kind.]
[Footnote 43: On the Tres Marias Islands.]
[Footnote 44: Don Pedro Fages. Commandante of California, who had been recalled.]
[Footnote 45: Bancroft. Hist. of Cal., says Ayala sailed from Monterey, July 24th. That was to make the sailing fit the Bancroft theories.]
[Footnote 46: Braza--Fathom: Six feet.]
[Footnote 47: Ayala anchored inside Port Point--the Presidio anchorage.]
[Footnote 48: Richardson's Bay.]
[Footnote 49: Angel Island.]
[Footnote 50: Alcatraz--Pelican]
[Footnote 51: The Southern portion of the bay.]
[Footnote 52: Pt. San Pedro.]
[Footnote 53: That is: Pt. Almejas or Pt. San Pedro.]
[Footnote 54: Barranca: The dictionary definition is a ravine or gulch, but it also means a high bluff or cliff and in that sense is used by these explorers.]
[Footnote 55: i. e.: from Pt. Almejas.]
[Footnote 56: Cliff Rouse Rocks.]
[Footnote 57: Punta del Angel de la Guarda--Point Lobos.]
[Footnote 58: Seal Rocks.]
[Footnote 59: Bakers Beach.]
[Footnote 60: Lobos Creek.]
[Footnote 61: i. e.: Inside of Point San Jose--Fort Point.]
[Footnote 62: Tamalpais]
[Footnote 63: Point Bonita. The present name was given it in 1776.]
[Footnote 64: Golden Gate Strait.]
[Footnote 65: i. e.: The outer harbor; outside of the Golden Gate.]
[Footnote 66: Lime Point.]
[Footnote 67: Angel Island.]
[Footnote 68: The Presidio anchorage.]
[Footnote 69: This is the body of water between Pt. San Pedro, Pt. San Pablo, Pt. Richmond and Tiburon Peninsula. The high farallon is Red Rock.]
[Footnote 70: The rocks are The Sisters and The Brothers.]
[Footnote 71: San Pablo Bay.]
[Footnote 72: Napa Slough. The marsh was evidently under water, and island number one, with Mare Island, made one long island.]
[Footnote 73: Codo--1 1/2 feet.]
[Footnote 74: Mare Island. The division of the hills or canon is Carquines Strait.]
[Footnote 75: Carquines Straits.]
[Footnote 76: The Assumption of the Virgin--August 15th. It is Southampton bay.]
[Footnote 77: That is, from Puerto de la Asumpta.]
[Footnote 78: Suisun Bay.]
[Footnote 79: The Sacramento and San Joaquin. Suisun Bay was long known as Puerto Dulce--Freshwater Port.]
[Footnote 80: Yerba Buena or Goat Island. Canizaries marked it on the map (c) for isla do Alcatraces, but that evidently was a mistake, as a comparison of the entry in the Log under date of August 12, with the map will show.]
[Footnote 81: Oakland and Berkeley tide flats.]
[Footnote 82: Islais creek.]
[Footnote 83: Yerba Buena cove and Mission bay.]