The Arguments for the Bodega Bay or Drake’s Bay Landfall
Wagner, then, has attempted to prove that Drake landed in Bodega Bay; Davidson and McAdie, that he anchored in Drake’s Bay; whereas Kroeber, Heizer and Elmendorf, Barrett, and Bancroft failed to reach a decision on which bay gave anchorage to the Golden Hinde.
In the following pages I shall analyze by comparative ethnographic technique the cultural data relating to the California Indians as given in the several accounts of the Drake visit in 1579. These sources are:
1. The World Encompassed account, which I judge to be the fullest and most reliable.35
2. The Famous Voyage account, which is abbreviated and therefore less complete in detail.36
3. The second declaration of John Drake (1582), a brief independent account of the occurrences in California (see below, App. I).37
4. Richard Madox’s notes on “Ships Land” (New Albion), which contain a revealing vocabulary of the Indian language.38
An exhaustive ethnography of the Coast Miwok has never been published. The main sources of Coast Miwok ethnography used in this paper may be enumerated as follows:
1. Data contained in various historical accounts. These are, for the most part, incidental data and are not, even in total amount, extensive. The accounts will be cited at the appropriate places below.
2. Published ethnographic notes such as are given in S. A. Barrett’s The Ethno-Geography of the Pomo and Neighboring Indians, A. L. Kroeber’s Handbook of the Indians of California, and many others which likewise will be cited below.
3. The extensive manuscript notes on the Coast Miwok in the possession of Dr. Isabel Kelly. Dr. Kelly has kindly lent her material for the purpose of checking ethnographic items.