cornelis 816
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- Sep 3, 2010
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Out of the diary of Viscaino ..... The general returned to the pueblo and an indian woman brought him two pieces of figured China silk , in fragments , telling him that they had got them from people loke ourselves , who had negroes ; that they had come on the ship which was driven by a strong wind to the coast and wrecked , and that ot was farther on . The general endeavored to take two or three indians with him , that they might tell him were the ship had been lost , promising to give them clothes . The indians consented and went with himto the captains ship , but as we were weighing anchor preparatory to leaving the indians said they wished to go ahead in their canoe , and that they did not wish to go aboard the ship, fearing thatwe would abduct them , and the general , in order notto excite thwm said : ,, very well ,, . We set sail , and on leaving the port a head wind struck us , which prevented our going where the indians indicated ; therefor we stood out to sea and the indians returned to their pueblo . ( the island of Catalina ) . Cornelius