[ 38] Probably White R.
[ 39] No distances are given, but from the description the most likely stream is Poso Cr.
[ 40] The Kern R., probably some miles above Bakersfield. A “long trip” downstream would have brought them into the slough country south of Bakersfield. From the entire absence of any mention of Buenavista L. farther to the west it is clear that Moraga did not get within sight of it.
[ 41] Grapevine Canyon. As Muñoz predicted, Father Zalvidea left an account of the villages in this area (see his report for the expedition of Aug., 1806).
[ 42] On the last three days the party left the valley by way of Grapevine Canyon, over Tejon Pass, across the Tehachapi Mts. (Cutter says the Santa Susanna Range) to San Fernando Mission.
[ 43] Olivera may be thinking of Moraga’s expedition of 1808, which went north into the Sacramento V.
[ 44] No recorded expedition remained in the field for any such length of time.
[ 45] Here the reference is clearly to the 1806 expedition.
[ 46] This expedition of 1807 is otherwise unrecorded.
[ 47] Possibly the entrance to the Gorge of the Kern R., east of Bakersfield.