We sailed
well to the westward to have the full advantage of the northeast
trades, and when we had reached the latitude of Point Conception,
where it is usual to make the land, we were several hundred miles to
the westward of it. We immediately changed our course due east, and
sailed in that direction for a number of days. At length we began to
heave-to after dark, for fear of making the land at night on a coast
where there are no light-houses and but indifferent charts, and at
daybreak on the morning of
Tuesday, Jan. 13th, 1835, we made the land at Point Conception, lat.
34 deg. 32' N., long. 120 deg. 06' W. The port of Santa Barbara, to
which we were bound, lying about fifty miles to the southward of this
point, we continued sailing down the coast during the day and
following night, and on the next morning,
Jan. 14th, 1835, we came to anchor in the spacious bay of Santa
Barbara, after a voyage of one hundred and fifty days from Boston.
CHAPTER IX
CALIFORNIA--A SOUTH-EASTER
California extends along nearly the whole of the western coast of
Mexico, between the gulf of California in the south and the bay of Sir
Francis Drake on the north, or between the 22d and 38th degrees of
north latitude.
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