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1533, a conqueror of the Spanish Aztec Empire, by the name of Hernán Cortés led the Spanish expedition that soon became the discovery of Baja California, in which the Spanish later named “the Californias”, after an old Spanish novel called, Las Sergas de Esplandián (Bean, Rawls 22). This quickly led to further interest of the newly discovered land, and in 1542, Upper California was discovered by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo. Due to the seldom amount of ships that made route along the California coast, and