European Exploration: Voyages of Discovery

After untold millennia of settlement by Native Americans, California was visited by a series of European explorers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The explorers sailed along the California coast and occasionally landed to take on water or make repairs. The records of their voyages contain fascinating glimpses of the land and people of early California.

Motives for Exploration: Headin' West and North
 Strait of Anián
 Island of California
 
First Contacts in Baja California

European Discovery of Alta California
 First European Images of the Kumeyaay, Tongva, and Chumash
 Earliest European Artifact in California?
 Bartolomé Ferrelo

The Francis Drake Mysteries
 Drake's Landing
 Drake's Encounters with the Coast Miwok
 
Manila Galleons
 Sebastián Rodríguez Cermeño
 Cermeño's Encounter with the Coast Miwok
 Sebastián Vizcaíno
 Vizcaíno's Account of the Ohlone

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