Jean François Galaup De La Pérouse's Life In A California Mission

In Life in a California Mission written by Jean François Galaup de La Pérouse, he held a positive and sympathetic view of California’s Native American population by stating his distress on the way the Indians are being treated and being impress on women’s cooking skills and their weapons. In La Pérouse’s journals, his crew and he landed in Monterey and he declare his observation, “with concern that the resemblance is so perfect that we have seen both men and women in irons, and others in the stocks…this punishment also being administered, though with little severity. ”(81)
He was impressed on the Indian women way of cooking since he noticed; “ no clay or metallic vessels for this operation, they perform it in baskets of bark by using small