Somis, in Ventura County, is an Indian place name.
Sonoma. See page [241].
Sonora. See page [333].
Soquel, or Souquel, was probably derived from Usacalis, a Costanoan Indian village situated in 1819 within ten miles of the Santa Cruz Mission.
Soscol. See Suscol.
Sotoyome, a former Chumash Indian village near Santa Inez Mission, in Santa Bárbara County.
Stanislaus. See page [275].
Suerte, a word of many meanings (luck, chance, lot of ground). In the apportionment of land by the Spaniards a suerte was a cultivable lot of land granted to colonists near the pueblos and within the four leagues assigned to the pueblo. Each suerte consisted of two hundred varas of length and two hundred of breadth, a vara being about thirty-three inches. Thus one suerte is one lot (of land), and not, as one writer has translated it, “one chance.” Dos suertes is two lots.
Suisún. See page [269].