Junipero Serra quotes

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years. (Junipero Serra)
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. View quote
Junipero Serra
We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing. View quote
Junipero Serra
We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives. View quote
Junipero Serra
Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died. View quote
Junipero Serra
As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary. View quote
Junipero Serra
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. View quote
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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. View quote
Junipero Serra
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. View quote
Junipero Serra