and moanes, with bitter teares and wringing of their
haads, tormenting theniselues." This was exceedingly
Hke the California Digger, as was also their king,
before whom on his appearing, "came a man of a large
body and goodly aspect, bearing the Septer or royall
mace, . . . whereupon hanged two crownes, a bigger
and a lesse, with three chaines of a maruellous length,"
and so on. It was with difficulty that the English-
men prevented these people from worshipping them,
and offering sacrifice as unto gods ; and the eagerness
with which they accepted Elizabeth for their sovereign
was pleasant to see. But about gold ? " There is no
part of earth," says the preacher, "here to be taken
up wherein there is nol a reasonable quantity of gold
or silver." And again: "The earth of the country
seemed to promise rich veins of gold and silver, some
of the ore being constantly found on digging." Even
a school-sjirl would recoa;nize in this the extravaofance
of fiction. Climates change ; simple savages might
mistake Drake's buccaneers for gods ; but if gold and
silver ever existed amid the rocks and hills in the
neighborhood of Drake bay, the world has yet to
know it.
In his Noticia de la California, Miguel Venegas, speaking of the voyage of Sebastian Vizcaino along the shore of Upper California in 1602, draws attention to the royal cedula of the 19th of August, 1606, granting Vizcaino permission to explore California, and inserts that document in the first volume of his his- tory. The king says, referring to Vizcaino's voyage of 1602, "que descubrio el dlcho Sebastian Vizcaino en la costa en mas de ochocientas leguas, que anduvo, se informo, y que todos decian, haver la tierra adentro grandes poblaciones, y plata, y oro," — that the said Vizcaino was told by the Indians along the whole coast of 800 leao-ues which he discovered, of laro;e set- tlements in the interior, and of silver and gold. " Whence Vizcaino is inclined to believe," the king continues, "that great riches may be discovered, es-
