THE TARGET — 'Haber hecho fuego contra un buque español por equivocación.' The SF port-mouth guard sighted the ship at 8 a.m., fired a *cañonazo* as a signal; when it didn't respond, manned the *cantil blanco* battery (its 8 cannon) with munitions, meaning to sink it (*echarlo á pique*) if it stayed silent; at 11 a.m. it was at the harbor mouth — fired 8 *cañonazos* at it, from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., when it signalled; pilot Juan Carrasco then reported it was the Goleta *Saturnina*, out of El Pilar 11 June, carrying dispatches for the commander of the Expedición de Límites, [Bodega y] Quadra (at Nootka), driven into port for lack of water & provisions — see Entry 10
| Date | 1792-09-10 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Hermenegildo Sal (San Francisco) |
| To | Gob. Arrillaga |
| Series | State Papers, Sacramento |
| Tomo | VI–IX (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | p.i.304–305 |
| Savage copy page | 69–70 |
| Scan leaf | n68–n69 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Hermenegildo Sal (San Francisco) to Gob. Arrillaga, 1792-09-10, State Papers, Sacramento, p.i.304–305, 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-d130.htmlThe originals of these records burned in the 1906 San Francisco fire. What survives is Thomas Savage’s 1870s copy, and this page describes that copy.
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