The famous missions of California . and theSan Carlos, being driven sadly out of her route, did notreach San Diego till twenty days after the 5aw Antonio,though dispatched some five weeks earlier. We shudder toread that of her crew but one sailor and the cook were leftalive; the rest, along with many of the soldiers, having suc-cumbed to the scurvy. The San Antonio also lost eight ofher crew from the same dreadful disease. These little detailsserve better than any general description to give us an ideaof the horrible conditions of Spanish seamanship in the mid-dle of the eighteenth century. As
The famous missions of California . and theSan Carlos, being driven sadly out of her route, did notreach San Diego till twenty days after the 5aw Antonio,though dispatched some five weeks earlier. We shudder toread that of her crew but one sailor and the cook were leftalive; the rest, along with many of the soldiers, having suc-cumbed to the scurvy. The San Antonio also lost eight ofher crew from the same dreadful disease. These little detailsserve better than any general description to give us an ideaof the horrible conditions of Spanish seamanship in the mid-dle of the eighteenth century. As for the San Joseph, shenever reached her destination at all, though where and howshe met her fate remains one of the dark mysteries of theocean. Two small points in connection with her loss areperhaps sufficiently curious to merit notice. In the first place,she was the only one of the ships that had no missionaryon board; and secondly, she was called after the verysaint who had been named special patron of the entire Belli brought from Chili Mission of San Juan Capistrano i6 The Famous Missions of California, 17 The original plan, as we have seen, had been that FatherJunipero should accompany the governor in the second divi-sion of the land-expedition; but this, when the day fixed fordeparture came, was found to be quite irnpossible owing tothe ulcerous sore on his leg, which had been much aggra-vated by the exertions of his recent hurried journey fromLoreto to La Paz and back. Greatly chafing under the delay,he was none the less obliged to postpone his start for severalweeks. At length, on the 28th of March, in company withtwo soldiers and a servant, he mounted his mule and set event showed that he had been guilty of undue haste,for he suffered terribly on the rough way, and on reachingSan Xavier, whither he went to turn over the managementof the Lower California missions to Palou, who was thensettled there, his condition was such that his friend implor
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