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LA REINA LOS ANGELES IN THREE CENTURIES 7
Pio\ Pico, last ,,';l\,1exican Governor of California.
named Porciuncula. [Los Angeles River The dry river bed to the north was
Arroyo Seco. Camp was probably near juncture of Los Angeles River and North
Broadway.] We must have traveled about three leagues today This plain
where the river runs is very extensive. It has good land for planting all kinds of
grain and seeds, and is the most suitable site of all that we have seen for a mission,
for it has all the requisites for a large settlement. As soon as we arrived, about
eight heathen from a good village came to visit us; they live in this delightful place
among the trees on the river They presented us with some baskets of pinole made
from seeds of sage and other grasses. Their chief brought some strings of beads
made of shells, and they threw us three handfuls of them. Some of the old men
were smoking pipes. We gave them tobacco and glass beads, and they went away
