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DAWN AND THE DONS 37 Serra’s trusted assistants; Gomez another Franciscan friar; Constanso, cosmographer and engineer; Ortega, the stout sergeant who afterward discovered San Francisco Bay; twenty-seven cuirrassiers, eight volunteer Catalan

soldiers,

fifteen

Christianized

Indians,

seven

muleteers and two body servants; sixty-six persons in all, together with horse and mule droves.

Father Serra remained at San Diego. With him were Vila, commander of the San Carlos; the Franciscans, Vizcaino and Parron; Camizares, a cosmographer; the surgeon, Prat; a blacksmith, a carpenter, and some fifty or more soldiers and sailors in various stages of illness.