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ported and a considerable revenue derived from the sale of such 

 products to the presidios. All the agricultural and manufactur- 

 ing work was performed by the Indians. Each mission had a 

 large flock of sheep, the eleven missions in 1800 possessing eighty- 

 six thousand. The Indians sheared the wool, and spun and wove 

 if into blankets and coarse fabrics for clothing. They also made 



Fig. 7.— Aboriginal Granaries made op Willow. 



soap, and tanned the skins and hides ; they were the shoemakers 

 and saddlers, the carpenters and blacksmiths. 



With respect to the number of hours the neophytes were com- 

 pelled to labor, there seems to be some doubt. In reply to the 

 commandant's charge that the neophytes were compelled to work 

 from six to nine hours a day, with extra work on special occasions 



