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CHRONOLOGY 85 and ia of Kalifornia to have been added for eu- phony. Francisco de Ulloa continued to designate the peninsula and what he presumed lay north of it as an island during his journeys in 1539. Even so late as 1709 English maps named this portion of the coast an island, but Spanish geographers had discovered the error nearly a decade before. From Navidad, Mexico, there departed in June, 1542, a Portuguese navigator whose two ships, the San Salvador and the Victoria had been out- fitted by Cortez, then Governor of Mexico, in a final effort to solve the mystery of the lands be- yond this western sea. Toiling up the coast of Lower California, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo came upon a harbour where he brought his caravels to anchor and sent canoes in to the shore. His log makes mention of the " large cabins, and the herbage like that of Spain," of the " high and rugged land," and of the lati- tude, which was 33J degrees. Thus is recorded the first impression of Upper California by its discoverer, Cabrillo. The bay he named for Saint Michael was called by a later voyager, San Diego. When they had treated with the Indians, the tiny fleet sailed north, feeling its way among the Chan- nel Islands to Monterey and putting ashore to