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SCENES IN THE PACIFIC. 
are uniformly familiar and friendly. On the first day of July 
they pitch their camp on the beach among their countrymen, 
at the long-sought port of San Diego. 
As the crews of the vessels have been thinned by death, 
till there are scarcely enough to man one of them, they 
cannot proceed farther north without recruits. Accord¬ 
ingly the remaining members of both crews are put on board 
the San Antonio, and the ship dispatched to San Bias for 
more seamen. It is also determined that the Governor shall 
lead the principal part of the landsmen along the shore to 
Monterey. The Padre’s President and two missionaries and 
eight soldiers are therefore detached to remain at the newly 
consecrated mission of San Diego ; and Don Gasper Portala, 
the Governor, with one servant, the Padres Juan Crispi and 
Francisco Gomez, with each a converted Indian to attend on 
him, and Don Fernando Rivera y Moncada with his sergeant 
and twenty-six soldiers, and his lieutenant Don Pedro Foxes, 
with seven Catalonian soldiers, and Don Miguel Constanzo, 
engineer, and seven muleteers and fifteen Indians from the 
southern missions, start over land to Monterey. They search 
the coast for bays and harbors, examine the lands and their 
products, pass the harbor of Monterey without recognizing it, 
go north to the Bay now called San Francisco, and give it 
that name under the following circumstances:—When the 
Padre President, Junipero, received orders from the Visitador 
General respecting the names of the new missions which he 
was sent northward to found, perceiving that’ the name of the 
Patron Saint of his order of priests was not among them, said, 
“ And is our Father San Francisco to have no mission assign¬ 
ed to him?” To which the Visitador replied, “If San Fran¬ 
cisco wishes to have a mission, let him show you a good port, 
and then it shall bear his name.” When the Monterey expe¬ 
dition, therefore, see this unequalled bay, they exclaim, 
“ This is the port to which the Visitador referred, and to 
which the Saint has led us,” and immediately called the bay 
Bajia del San Francisco. They now erect a cross on the 
