The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco Part 5

[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 ma.s.s.

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 ma.s.s. 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, a.n.a.les del Ministerio de Formento de la Republica Mexicana Tomo VI, p. 269. Doc.u.ments in the Archives of the Indies, Seville.]

[Footnote 42: This is a summary of the doc.u.ment. A full translation would be too tedious for a work of this kind.]

[Footnote 43: On the Tres Marias Islands.]

[Footnote 44: Don Pedro f.a.ges. 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 anch.o.r.ed 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 a.s.sumption of the Virgin--August 15th. It is Southampton bay.]