Exhibit item:
JUAN BAUTISTA DE ANSA
Descubrimiento de Sonora a Californias en al Año de 1774, manuscript

Quotation:
HERBERT EUGENE BOLTON, translation
Anza’s California Expeditions, 1930

"This afternoon it rained for about an hour and a half, although not very heavily. The same afternoon we succeeded in killing with bullets a monstrous bear which came out upon our road, whose very fat flesh was taken advantage of by those who like it.

From Tubac, returning from the port of San Francisco to the arroyo of San Matheo, 355 ½ leagues."