[21] See R. B. Haselden, "Is the Drake Plate of Brass Genuine?" _California Historical Society Quarterly_, XVI (1937), 271-274. Haselden's queries have been answered already. W. Hume-Rotherby (review of _Drake's Plate of Brass Authenticated_, in _Geographical Journal_, CXIV [1939], 54-55) points out that the letters engraved on the plate (B, N, M) are not paralleled by other sixteenth-century inscriptions, and that the form of the numeral 5 is suspect. These and other problems which he poses have the effect of creating a smokescreen of doubt without contributing anything new. Wagner is skeptical of the date on the plate (June 17) and of the fact that the plate is of brass rather than lead ("Creation of Rights of Sovereignty through Symbolic Acts," _Pacific Historical Review_, VII [1938], 297-326). [22] Allen L. Chickering, "Some Notes with Regard to Drake's Plate of Brass," _California Historical Society Quarterly_, XVI (1937), 275-281, and "Further Notes on the Drake Plate," _ibid._, XVIII (1939), 251-253. [23] Herbert E. Bolton, "Francis Drake's Plate of Brass," in _Drake's Plate of Brass_, California Historical Society, Special Publication No. 13 (San Francisco, 1937). [24] C. G. Fink and E. P. Polushkin, _Drake's Plate of Brass Authenticated_ ... California Historical Society, Special Publication No. 14 (San Francisco, 1938). [25] Wagner's theory is not stated explicitly in any one place, hence specific reference is impossible. See his _Sir Francis Drake's Voyage around the World_ (San Francisco, 1926), pp. 156-158, 169. [26] This is shown even more clearly on the Hezeta map of 1775 reproduced by Herbert E. Bolton, _Historical Memoirs of New California by Fray Francisco Palóu_, 4 vols. (Berkeley, 1926), Vol. IV, facing p. 16. George C. Davidson in his _Identification_ (pp. 17-18, 34, 39) made a similar identification of the Indian village site at the Limantour Estero in Drake's Bay. [27] Bolton, _op. cit._, n. 19. See also L. L. Loud, _Ethnogeography and Archaeology of the Wiyot Territory_, Univ. Calif. Publ. Am. Arch. and Ethn., Vol. 14, No. 3 (Berkeley, 1918), p. 243. [28] H. R. Wagner, _Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast of America_, California Historical Society, Special Publication No. 4 (San Francisco, 1929), p. 158. [29] For details see Kroeber, _Handbook_, pp. 78-79, pl. 9; and Loud, _Ethnogeography_, pp. 243, 244. [30] Wagner, _Drake's Voyage_, pp. 157, 158. [31] "Fray Benito de la Sierra's Account of the Hezeta Expedition to the Northwest Coast in 1775," trans. by A. J. Baker, introd. and notes by H. R. Wagner, _California Historical Society Quarterly_, IX (1930), 218. [32] See T. A. Rickard, "The Use of Iron and Copper by the Indians of British Columbia," _British Columbia Historical Quarterly_, III (1939), 26-27, where the Hezeta finds are expressly discussed. Rickard's opinion also differs from Wagner's.