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Excerpt from An Historical Sketch of Los Angeles County, California: From the Spanish Occupancy, by the Founding of the Missions San Gabriel Archangel, September 8, 1771, to July 4, 1876 The success which 'crowned the labors of the Jesuit Missionaries in Peninsular California, stimulated the Franciscan Order of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico, to attempt a like work along the shore of the Pacific Ocean from the Peninsula northerly. This enterprise was approved of and assisted by the Government of New Spain, and was also fostered and encouraged by zealous Christians and philanthropists Of Mexico, who donated large sums of money and estates to aid in its prosecution. The first expedition, sent to this new field of labor by the College of San. Fernando, was in three detachments - two of which were to proceed up by land over the Peninsula, and the other, in three vessels, to go by water. Each detachment was accompanied by a small military force, which force numbered, in all, four companies. That portion of the expedition which went by water, embarked at San Blas, and, after calling at Loreto, a penin sular port, sailed from thence for San Diego and Monterey. These vessels, the San Carlos, the San Antonio, and the San Joseph, were the transports of the detachment sent by water. Two of these vessels, called packet boats, only reached San Diego; the other, the San Joseph, was never heard from after leaving Loreto. The San Antonio arrived at San Diego on the 11th of April, and the San Carlos on the lat of May, 1769. The two detachments by land reached San Diego, one May 14th, and the other July lst, of the same year. The land detachments brought two hundred head of neat cattle, a number of horses and mares, sheep, goats, and hogs, with which to stock the country the were on their way to subdue and occupy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.