e Mar y de tierra hichos al norte
de la California. Ms. Original in Sutro Library.]

[Footnote 18: The league is the Spanish league of 5,000 varas. 2.63 miles.]

[Footnote 19: They also gave it the name of Santa Ana, whose day, July 26th, they
had just observed.]

[Footnote 20: Sometimes called the Grand Pardon of Assisi--the great indulgence
of the Franciscans. Originally granted to St. Francis for the Church
of Our Lady of the Angeles of Porciuncula, it was, by apostolic indult,
expanded to accompany the child of St. Francis wherever he may be. It is
enough for him to erect an altar and that altar will be to him St.
Mary of the Angels, and he will there find the Porciuncula of the
revelations. Whoso confesses and receives the sacrament in the church of
Porciuncula is granted plenary remission of his sins in this world and
the next. This indulgence is only for August 2nd--that is, from the
afternoon of August 1st until sunset of August 2nd.]

[Footnote 21: It is to this incident that the city of Los Angeles owes its name.
The full baptismal name of the city is Nuestra Senora La Reina de los
Angeles--Our Lady the Queen of the Angels. It was founded in 1781, by
royal order, the second pueblo established in California.]

[Footnote 22: Rancheria is the name given to an Indian village or town.]

[Footnote 23: The Valley of the Bears.]

[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 con