[12] Pancakes.
[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.
[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.
[15] Carga, 275 lbs.
[16] Hence the presidial soldiers were called Soldados de Cuera and so
distinguished from soldiers of the regular army.
[17] Diario Historico de los viages de Mar y de tierra hichos al norte
de la California. Ms. Original in Sutro Library.
[18] The league is the Spanish league of 5,000 varas. 2.63 miles.
[19] They also gave it the name of Santa Ana, whose day, July 26th,
they had just observed.
[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.
[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.
[22] Rancheria is the name given to an Indian village or town.
[23] The Valley of the Bears.
[24] The diarists applied the word canada to either a canon or an open
valley.
[25] The word ensenada, much used by the Spanish explorers, means a
bight or open roadstead, not an enclosed and protected bay.
[26] "Transportar en Xamus al Modo que cominan las mujeres en
Andalucia," Crespi: Palou's Noticias de la Nueva California, ii. 181.
[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.
[28] The Fleas.
[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.
[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.
![The March Of Portola And The Discovery Of The Bay Of San Francisco By Zoeth S. Eldredge
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[11] Out West. March-July, 1902.
[12] Pancakes.
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