Excerpt from Pebble Beach, Monterey County, California Here, under a spreading oalt, the Holy Sacrament was par of and the land named ey, in honor of de Zuniga, Count of Monterey, then Viceroy of Mexico, hy whom the expedition had heen fitted out. Viscaino was unprepared to estahlish a mission, and after a stay of eighteen days he and his companions departed. For more than one hundred years the place was unvisited hy any white man. On July 14, 1769, 166 years Mission San Carlos De Borromeo and later, Don Gaspar de Portola set out overland Andentmfidfld service as seen teddy from San Diego to rediscover Monterey. When he and his command of sixty-live persons arrived there, he failed to identify it as the spot he sought. So after erecting a great cross, he passed on to new fields, finally discovering the Bay of San Francisco On May 31, 1770, the packet San Antonio, commanded hy Don Juan perez, arrived from San Diego and anchored off Monterey. The surrounding country, at this time, was radiant with flowers, the hills covered with verdure. It agreed in every particular with the reports written hy Don Viscaino in 1602, and thus Monterey was identified. Its rediscovery was celehrated by the erection of an altar, the ringing of hells, the planting and hlessing of the grand cross. The royal standard was hoisted, and the first mass chanted. Then the entire company assemhled and formally took possession in the name of their King, Carlos III of Spain. Thus occurred on June 3, 1770, the actual Jfounding of Mission San Carlos de Borromeo. 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.