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DAWN AND THE DONS 30 ciscan priest, Hernando Parron, who acted as chaplain. The San Antonio was commanded by Juan Perez, a for-

mer master of the Manila galleon, with a mate and a crew of twenty-eight men, and with Chaplain Juan Vizcaino and the priest, Francisco Gomez. No record has been found of the exact number aboard the San Antonio. The first land expedition, under command

of Rivera

y Moncada, accompanied by Father Crespi, an intimate friend of Serra, and like him a native of the island of

Majorca, and guided by Cosmographer Jose Canizares, consisted of twenty-five cuirassed men from the garrison of Loreto—soldiers who wore cuirrasses of heavy leather as armor against attacks by arrows or spears; referred to by Father Serra, in a letter to Palou, as “leather-jacketed soldiers”—forty-two Christianized Indians, and three muleteers, with one hundred eightyeight mules.

The second land expedition, commanded

by Governor Portola and accompanied by Father Serra, consisted of ten cuirrassed soldiers under Sergeant Jose Francisco Ortega—later the actual discoverer of San Francisco Bay—forty-four Indians, four muleteers with one hundred seventy mules, and two servants to attend

Portola and Serra. Galvez, whose heart was set upon the success of the Monterey expedition, had crossed the Gulf in a third boat, and had labored unceasingly in the preparation, organization and equipment of the several divisions of this historic expedition. His preliminary work com-