Note 1357 — Chapter VI · (continued 3)

Our knowledge of this expedition comes largely from the account of a Carmelite priest, Antonio de la Ascension, who accompanied it, and whose report, presented in the Biblioteca Nacional at Madrid, is printed in Pacheco’s Coleccion de documentos, viii. 539. Torquemada used it, and so did Venegas in his Noticia de la California (Madrid, 1757; English edition, London, 1759; French edition, Paris, 1767; German, 1769). Cf. on Venegas, Carter-Brown, vol. iii. nos. 1,172, 1,239, 1,601, 1,710; field, Indian Bibliography, nos. 1,599, 1,600; Bancroft, North Mexican States, i. 281. An abridged narrative from Lorenzana is given in the Boletin of the Mexican Geographical Society, vol. v., 1857. Navarrete adds some other documents in his Coleccion, xv. Bancroft (North Mexican States, i. 154-155, and California, i. 98) enumerates other sources; as does J. C. Brevoort in the Magazine of American History, i. 124.