The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San FranciscoEldredge, Zoeth Skinner
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The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco
Eldredge, Zoeth Skinner
California -- History; California -- History -- To 1846; Portolá's Expedition, Calif., 1769-1770; San Francisco Bay (Calif.)
[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.]
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