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SCENES IN THE PACIFIC. 
ing light with the chants of the Mass, and the celebration of 
the most sacred services of the church. The people are called 
together at mid-day, and prayers are most devoutly said and 
praises again sung to the Creator. 
The good Padre speaks. He draws an exhortation from the 
Laws of God. He exhorts as one soon to be left alone in a 
land of martyrdom. He ceases ; he blesses ; and the tide of 
thought and emotion is now setting upon the busy movements 
of the departure for Loretto, when lo! in the offing is per¬ 
ceived the outline of a vessel standing towards the land ! 
Was it an omen ! shadowed on the rim of the sky to arouse 
faith in God? It disappears during the night! The sun rises 
and sets over the hot seas three times afterwards, and it does 
not re-appear! The fourth day dawns and waxes to the me¬ 
ridian, and wanes on the western waves! And when night 
shuts in, the cable of the San Antonio rattles its rude saluta¬ 
tion to the silent shores around the Bay of San Diego ! 
On the arrival of this ship with provisions and a recruit of 
men, it is determined to make another expedition to Monterey. 
A party by land and another by sea, are detailed for the under¬ 
taking. Both leave San Diego, about the middle of April, 1770. 
Long and tedious are the voyages of these infant days of navi¬ 
gation. Forty-six days are spent by the San Antonio in 
making 4° of latitude. On the thirty-first of May, how¬ 
ever, Padre Junipero with joy beholds from the ship the green 
hills around the bay of Monterey. The anchor is let into the 
waters, the boats are lowered, they shoot away to the shore ; 
the land expedition having arrived eight days before, meet their 
countrymen on the rocks at the beach. The first and second 
of June are spent in that hearty social intercourse, which 
those alone ever feel who have thrown their hearts for months 
on the cold breast of the wulderness. Dangers incurred, suf¬ 
ferings endured on rock and surge, remembrances of the sa¬ 
cred past,the sensations of dawning joy crowding on past mis¬ 
ery like day on the heels of night, cluster around the mind and 
bid the affections increase the pulsations of life. On the third 
