Map originally made for Palou's Life of Padre Junipero Serra, published in Mexico in 1787.] In order that the spiritual part of the work might be as carefully planned as the political, Galvez summoned Serra.

What a fine combination! Desire and power hand in hand! What nights were spent by the two in planning! What arguments, what discussions, what final agreements the old adobe rooms occupied by them must have heard! But it is by just such men that great enterprises are successfully begun and executed.

For fervor and enthusiasm, power and sense, when combined, produce results.

Plans were formulated with a completeness and rapidity that equalled the best days of the _Conquistadores_.

Four expeditions were to go: two by land and two by sea.