tinued 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.]

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

[Footnote 43: On the Tres Marias Islands.]

[Footnote 44: Don Pedro Fages. 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 anchored inside Port Point--the Presidio anchorage.]

[Footnote 48: Richardson's Bay.]

[Footnote 49: