benica

Updated: May 8, 2025

We passed out of the bay of San Francisco into the bay of Los Angles, and crossed that into the Straits of Benica, which is four miles long and connects with Suisan bay. The Straits of Benica was a perfectly safe anchorage. It was approaching night, and blowing almost a gale.

Daniel Knower - The Adventures of a Forty-niner : An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days