A TRIP TO SAN NICOLAS ISLAND

Fernando Librado, John Peabody Harrington's Chumash informant, recalled a time when three tomols (plank canoes) let out from someplace and headed for San Nicolas Island. Two of the canoes and their crews were lost.

This event probably occurred before 1836, when all of the Indians, with one exception, were removed from the island. The southern shore of Santa Cruz Island was the normal jumping off point for trips to San Nicolas Island, and the distance was 42 miles.

                                                                        `           Mike Kuhn

11-7-04