Junipero Serra
Junipero Serra
Junípero Serra y Ferrer, O.F.M.,was a Roman Catholic Spanish priest and friar of the Franciscan Order who founded a mission in Baja California and the first nine of 21 Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco, in what was then Alta California in the Province of Las Californias, New Spain...
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth24 November 1713
country generally good neither nor passed plenty rocky tract
The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.
although arrived assist power reduced
Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well.
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Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.
appeared cases large loaded quite vines
We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile.
yesterday thank-god months
Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.