As In So Many Cases The
Good Father Was Unable To Make The Name He Gave Stick, The Saint Has
Been Ignored, But Point Buchon, Just Above Point Harford And Mount
Buchon, Otherwise Known As Bald Knob, Bear Witness To The Staying
Qualities Of The Tumor On The Chief's Neck.
Passing up the narrow canon
of San Luis creek, they camped at or near the site of the mission and
city of San Luis Obispo.
From here, instead of proceeding over the
Sierra de Santa Lucia by the Cuesta pass into the upper Salinas valley,
whence the march to Monterey would have been easy, they turned to the
west and followed the Canada de los Osos to the sea at Morro Bay, which
they called El Estero de San Serafin. The Canada de los Osos[23], still
so called, they named because of a fight with some very fierce bears,
one of which they succeeded in killing after it had received nine balls.
Another wounded the mules, and the hunters with difficulty saved their
lives.
The travelers now marched up the coast until, on the 13th, they came to
a point where further progress was disputed by the Sierra de Santa
Lucia. This was where a spur from the sierra terminating in Mount Mars,
blocks the passage by the beach and presents a bold front, rising three
thousand feet from the water. Camping at the foot of the sierra, Portola
sent out the explorers under Rivera to find a passage through the
mountains.
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