Reading Part A “The Naming of Santa Ana and Los Angeles”

Notes for “The Naming of Santa Ana and Los Angeles,” by Crespí, pg.78-81.

• I wonder what a measurement of a “Varas” is, is it closer to miles or meters?
• Great flooding river in Southern California, I don’t know any today with a similar description. 
• Friendly native Americans again, I hope they stay peaceful with them 
• Pinole must be a very important jewelry for the natives
• Pinole is also a name of another city in California, any resemblance with that?
• Many earthquakes they experiences, very expected if they’re near the fault line.
• Lots of antelope, do we still have a lot, I feel like it’s more deer now. 
• Another native tribe with Pinole, maybe they were clansmen of the first, or it was something of value to trade in the area. 
• Wild grape vineyards, very California and foretelling to what the area will become in the future. It must of been pretty to see it in its wild glory. 
• “The soil is black and loamy” very important as we are now a huge agriculture hub, and it was acknowledged for its abilities this early on. 
• Banks with herbs and watercress, a lot of wild herbs grow after a good rain here.
• Volcanoes and they found the tar pits, “bubbling... certain substance like pitch...” it very much sounds like the tar pits of Southern California, I wonder if they were brave enough to put anything inside of them.