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[ Audiencia, the highest judicial body.]
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[ The system of encomienda conferred feudal rights upon the discoverers. The Indians became vassals of Spanish lords.]
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[ Vizcaino says he set out on the discovery of the coast of the South Sea with two ships, a lancha, and a barcoluengo. A lancha was a small vessel having no deck and but one mast, and propelled by sweeps. Vanegas calls the vessel a fragata. A barcoluengo, or barcolongo, was a long open boat.]
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[ The second voyage of Vizcaino is of particular interest to Californians for the reason that the names given by him to the various geographical features of the coast still remain. The particulars of the first voyage are taken largely from the publications of the Southern California Historical Society of documents in the Sutro collection.]
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[ Sutro Col. Pub. Southern California Hist. Socy.]