Quotes from Junipero Serra

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

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.