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Excerpt from The Library of the University of California Losangeles Quoted from account of the expedition which Portolá (Por-lo-lah') conducted. August 17th, 1770... "Proceeding along the beach we arrived at a village of thirty-eight huts. The savages were possessed of a number of canoes, and, as they were just Building another, the soldiers called the place Carpinteria (Car-pen-ter-e-ah). We broke camp at Seven in the morning and kept on traveling near the beach in a westerly direction... After marching four leagues, we arrived at a large raneheria, far larger than any we had yet seen, situated on a good point of land which enters the sen. With much difficulty we crossed a large estuary which extends inland for some distance. We forded it near a Rancho." (In the South we would say. Plantation, in New England we would say, Farm), "and then went into camp about two gunshots from the village... In the neighborhood of this raneheria is a spring of very good water, and near to the camp we found a large lagoon... The level land in this vicinity is covered with many large evergreen oaks. The pueblo (pu-ah'-blo) was named La Laguna De La Concepcion. We could make no observations on account of cloudy weather... We pitched our camp in a Canada with running water... three leagues to the west... a double estuary entered the land, forming an island... on this island was a large town in which we counted a hundred huts." "This camping place must have been Santa Barbara." April 21st, 1782. "Towards evening the expedition came to a spot which the first explorers had named San Joaquin De La Laguna, ten leagues to the northwest of San Buena-ventura. Here the Presidio (pre-sé-de'-o) of Santa Barbara was Founded." Father Serra relates the event as follows: "On the feast of the patronage of St. Joseph... occurred the blessing and erection of the great Cross, the blessing of the locality, the first holy Mass and sermon, the founding of this Presidio of Santa Barbara on the land of Yanonali. May God bless It. Amen." The next day the soldiers went to work erecting a chapel, dwellings for the priest and officers, barracks for the soldiers, houses for their families, and a warehouse. This "estero" (lagoon), probably covered the present "estero" and reached up to the old De la Guena Gardens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.