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Spanish traveler Padre South Hotel was on a planning mission for the King of Spain when he found the Brazos Santiago Pass. He portrayed deceptive shoals and a coastline covered with fights and gear from ships that had destroyed numerous prior years. Padre Nicholas Balli, for whom the Island gets its name, was the primary European to carry families to the Island. 26 miles north of the Island's southern tip, he and his nephew Juan, established El Rancho Santa Cruz de Buena Vista (later known as the Lost City), where he kept cows, ponies and donkeys. The real farm and storehouses were minimal more than covered cottages known as jacals. In light of its normal walls of water, the Island was an ideal spot for raising domesticated animals. In 1811, Padre South Hotelstated in his will that he claimed 1,000 head of dairy cattle. He additionally constructed the primary church on the Island for the change of the Karankawa Indians and to serve the pilgrims.