Produced by Chris Curnow, C. S. Beers, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: Francis Drake being "crowned" by the natives of New Albion (California) in June, 1579. (From Arnoldus Montanus, _Die unbekante neue Welt_; the Dapper issue, Amsterdam, 1673.)] FRANCIS DRAKE AND THE CALIFORNIA INDIANS, 1579 BY ROBERT F. HEIZER UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY AND LOS ANGELES 1947 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS IN AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY EDITORS (LOS ANGELES): RALPH L. BEALS, FRANKLIN FEARING, HARRY HOIJER Volume 42, No. 3, pp. 251-302, plates 18-21, 1 figure in text, 2 illus. Submitted by editors February 27, 1946 Issued March 20, 1947 Price, cloth, $2.00; paper, $1.25 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY AND LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON, ENGLAND PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS PAGE General Background 251 The Trinidad Bay Landfall Theory 255 The Arguments for the Bodega Bay or Drake's Bay Landfall 258 Analysis of the _World Encompassed_ Account 259 Additional Ethnographic Items in the Richard Madox and John Drake Accounts 273 Supposed Indian Traditions of Drake's Visit 276 Recapitulation and Conclusion 277 APPENDIX I. The Sources 280 II. Excerpt from _The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake_ 283 Plates 293 FRANCIS DRAKE AND THE CALIFORNIA INDIANS, 1579 BY ROBERT F. HEIZER GENERAL BACKGROUND