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.
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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.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.
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Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.
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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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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.
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I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
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