'Buques ingleses en Bodega' — see Entry 9. ✎✓ RE-READ AT FULL RESOLUTION 2026-09-24 (n66–n67)

State Papers, Sacramento, tomo VI–IX · BANC MSS C-A 55, document 124

'Buques ingleses en Bodega' — see Entry 9. ✎✓ RE-READ AT FULL RESOLUTION 2026-09-24 (n66–n67): four catalog errors corrected. Savage quotes Sal's own first-person report in full: "había dos barcos en el P.to de la Bodega; preguntado p.r mí me respondió, no entendían lo q.e les hablaban, y q.e los soldados traían ropa como nuestras vueltas, de q.e colegí serían ingleses; vuelto á preguntar, dijo q.e habían estado había 4 lunas, y no permanecían á la presente, q.e habían cogido agua, leña, y cazado muchos venados, y q.e á los indios les pedían ganado enseñándoles astas de res." So: an Indian 'de las Islas' came before the presidio and reported two ships at Bodega. ✎ They had been there FOUR MOONS (*4 lunas*), not four days, and were NO LONGER THERE (*no permanecían á la presente*). ✎ They asked the Indians for cattle **showing them CATTLE HORNS** (*astas de res*) — not otters. ✎ The English identification is Sal's own inference from the clothing (*de q.e colegí serían ingleses*), not something the informant said. *Vueltas* is most likely the uniform's turned-back facings. ⭐ The whole report stands inside Savage's quotation marks: this is the dossier's most substantial passage in the writer's own words.

Date1792-10-08 (exact)
FromHermenegildo Sal (San Francisco)
ToGob. Arrillaga
SeriesState Papers, Sacramento
TomoVI–IX (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo)
Original tomo pagep.i.296
Savage copy page67–68
Scan leafn66–n67
Document typeabstract
SourceSavage abstract

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How to cite this documentHermenegildo Sal (San Francisco) to Gob. Arrillaga, 1792-10-08, State Papers, Sacramento, p.i.296, Archives of California, C-A 55, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [the tomo is given as the volume’s full range: this entry has not been resolved to a single tomo within VI–IX]Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca55/ca55-d124.html
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