ted
amole, which is another root like a rather long onion, all well
cooked and roasted ... The amole, which is their most usual
food, tastes a little like mescal. It is the food which most
abounds, and the fields along here are full of it.

Font (F2) adds the following description of the natives seen at the
final halt on Rodeo Creek:

As soon as we halted thirty-eight Indians came to us unarmed,
peaceful, and very happy to see us. At first they stopped and
sat down on a small hill near the camp. Then one came, and
behind him another, and so they came in single file like a flock
of goats, leaping and talking, until all had arrived. They were
very obliging, bringing us firewood, and very talkative, their
language having much gobbling, nothing of which we understood.
They go naked like all the rest, and they are by no means white,
but are like all those whom we saw on the other side near the
mouth of the port. After they had been a while with us they bade
us goodby and we made signs to them that they should go and get
us some fish with two hooks which I gave them. They apparently
understood us clearly, but they brought us nothing and showed
very little appreciation for the hooks, because their method of
fishing is with nets.

On Tuesday, April 2, the Anza expedition continued along the southeast
shore of San Pablo Bay, the south bank of Carquinez Strait, and halted
on Walnut Creek, near Pacheco (the place called Santa Angela de Fulgino
by Crespi). Water was scarce; no mention is made of crossing any creeks
during the march until they arrived at Walnut Creek in the evening.

The descriptions of the vegetation along Carquinez Strait are somewhat
ambiguous. It will be remembered that the impression given by Crespi for
this stretch is one of total absence of trees. Anza says (A):

... for half a league up the river [by which he means Carquinez
Strait] we kept very close to the Sierra which we have had on
our right and which we skirted until yesterday. And we now again
came to have it on the same side, so improved in abundance of
firewood, and timber of oak and live oak that all its canyons
are well provided with one and the other, the very opposite of
what is seen on the other side of the river [i.e., the north
shore of the strait], where in four leagues we have not seen a
single tree.

In describing the stra