Excerpt from Hubert Howe Bancroft, A History of California, San Francisco: History Company, 2 (1885): 39.
On or about May 23d [1806] with a hundred Aleut hunters, four Russians, twelve women, and fifty bidarkas, the O’Cain set sail for the south, and on June 10th anchored just north of Trinidad Bay [northern California], where Washington Sound, now Big Lagoon, was discovered, named, and partially explored.
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