Junipero Serra Quotes

"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."
- Junipero Serra
(Related: Country, Land, Water)

"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
(Related: Fishing, Numbers)

"We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives."
- Junipero Serra
(Related: Confidence, Journey)

"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."
- Junipero Serra
(Related: Time, People, Water)

"Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died."
- Junipero Serra
(Related: Land, Sea)

"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."
- Junipero Serra
(Related: Lies, Reality)

"Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two."
- Junipero Serra

"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."
- Junipero Serra
(Related: Power, Father, Now)

"We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile."
- Junipero Serra
(Related: Abundance, Roses)

"I pray God may preserve your health and life many years."
- Junipero Serra
(Related: Health, Life, God, May, Years)