midday
Three days after leaving Santa Barbara he sighted a long narrow mountainous island . He had passed another of different proportions in the morning , and before night sighted still another , small and oval . But the lofty irregular mass , some ten miles long and four miles wide , which he approached at sundown , was the one he sought . The night world was alight under the white blaze of the moon ; the captain rode into a small harbour at the extreme end of the island and cast anchor , avoiding reefs and shoals as facilely as by midday . Father Carillo gave his Indians orders to be ready to march at dawn . The next morning the priest arrayed himself in his white satin garments , embroidered about the skirt with gold and on the chest with a purple cross pointed with gold . The brown woollen habit of his voyage was left behind .