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pointed to the charge of the Missions on the Senora coast, 
whence it will be easy to send supplies across the Gulf to the 
more barren regions of the peninsula. Padre Juan Maria 
Salva Tierra is designated to lead the way on the California 
side. He solicits contributions; obtains Padre Juan Ugarte, a 
professor in the college at Mexico, as a fellow-laborer; fif¬ 
teen thousand dollars to be pledged the Society of Jesuits for 
the enterprise; ten thousand more to be given it as a fund 
for one mission; prevails upon the Commissary of the Inqui¬ 
sition at Queretaro, Don Juan Cavalero Y. Ozio, to subscribe 
funds for two other missions, and obligate himself to pay what¬ 
ever bills shall be drawn on him by Padre Salva Tierra. 
The license for the Jesuits to enter California is granted on 
the fifth of February, 1627. The special warrants empower¬ 
ing Padres Kino and Salva Tierra to enter California are 
subject to these conditions : that they waste nothing belong¬ 
ing to the king, nor draw upon the government treasury with¬ 
out express orders from his majesty; that they take posses¬ 
sion of the country, and hold it in the name of the King of 
Spain. 
The powers granted them in these warrants are, to enlist 
soldiers at their own expense ; appoint a commander, whose 
immunities shall be accounted the same as in time of war ; to 
commission magistrates for the administration of justice in 
California; and discharge all these from their service at will. 
With full powers both civil and ecclesiastical, therefore, and 
the treasury both of the Inquisition and of many private indivi¬ 
duals to draw upon, Padre Salva Tierra goes from Mexico to 
Guadalaxara; thence to Hiaqui, in Senora; and thence on the 
tenth of October, 1697, with five soldiers, Estevan Rodriguez 
Lorenzo, Bartoleme de Robles Figueroa, Juan Caravana, 
Nicolas Marques, and Juan, with their commander, Don Luis 
de Torres Tortolero, embarks for the scene of his future trials. 
A great moral hero, with his little band, kneeling in prayer 
on the deck of a galliot, bound for the conquest of California ! 
The sails are loosened to the winds; they leave the harbor ; 
