Cabrillo 2
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- As it turns out, Cabrillo’s stop on the Pacific Coast was at none other than our own San Diego Bay. Cabrillo had landed in California! Of course, the land at that time was not called California.
- Cabrillo had been ordered to sail up the west coast to set up a trading port. More ships were sailing across the Pacific Ocean to Asia. The plan was to start trading with Asia and have ships stop along the California coast.
- The Spanish had big plans for this business venture and spent a great deal of money and time to make it work. It was very hard to get things going in a new land, with new people, new languages and strange surroundings.
- Cabrillo was an excellent sea captain and knew about ship building. In fact, Cabrillo’s fl agship, the San Salvador, was built by Cabrillo himself.
- During Cabrillo’s early years, he served with the famous Hernán Cortés. In 1519, Cortés sailed with 11 ships and about 600 men toward Mexico. Cortés came upon thousands of Aztec people whose leader was named Montezuma II.
- When Montezuma saw the Spaniards, he thought Cortés could be Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec god who, tradition said, had visited them earlier and promised to return.
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