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Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579

Chapter 5: Transcriber's Notes
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The study examines competing theories for an early English anchorage on the northern California coast by analyzing contemporary voyage narratives, depositions, and ethnographic detail. It evaluates reported vocabulary, a ceremonial song, and behavioral observations against recorded Coast Miwok and Pomo material, finding several linguistic and ritual parallels closest to Coast Miwok forms. The author considers corroborating eyewitness depositions and discusses how ethnology can narrow geographic hypotheses while stressing limits of the evidence; ultimately the analysis supports a Coast Miwok identification for the native contacts but acknowledges that precise anchorage location remains uncertain.

Transcriber's Notes

Both "Bruno de Hezeta" and "Bruno Heceta" used in text. Both forms have been retained.

Footnote numbers to the appendices are prefixed with "A-" for App. I or "B-" for App. II.

Archaic spelling and punctuation retained in quoted texts, except for rejoining end-of-line hyphenations. Spelling of "betsowed" (page 284) and "cheife" (page 285) in quoted text retained as printed.

Verso, "Mardh" changed to "March" (Issued March 20, 1947)

Page 265 (footnote 67), a superfluous closing parenthesis was removed (169, 170, 181; Loeb,)

Page 269 (footnote 84), a full stop has been changed to a comma (Pomo, element)

Page 269 (footnote 85), "tto" changed to "to" (reference to the seeds)

Page 270 (footnote 87), "Eth." changed to "Ethn." (and Ethn., Vol. VII)

Page 270 (footnote 90), the note number is missing (element no. 807, p. 197, n.)

Page 271, "native's" changed to "natives'" (the natives' actions)

Page 273, a superfluous comma was removed (Miwok,[101] and)