384 THE ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF 
regret at the death of his master, he should also serve him and bear him com- 
pany in the other world. Among the murderers were some whom the father 
had considered as the most reliable of his flock, and whose fidelity he never had 
doubted. 
Having torn the garments from the lifeless body, they treated it in a most 
abominable manner in order to wreak their vengeance, and they finally threw 
it on a burning pile. After this they set the church and the house on fire, and 
burned to ashes the utensils of the church, the altar, the representations of our 
Saviour and of the Saints, and everything else that they could not apply to 
their own use. In the mean time the two unarmed soldiers, who had been sent 
after cattle, returned. They were compelled to dismount and to kill the cows 
for the malefactors, after which the savages despatched them with a shower of 
arrows. 
On the following day, the same fate befell Father Tamaral, the priest of the 
mission of St. Joseph, twelve leagues distant from that of St. Yago, for as soon as 
the villains had committed their crime at the one place, they directed their 
march to the other. Father Tamaral, not believing the report of his colleague, 
was quietly sitting in his house, when the savage crowd, considerably increased 
by members of his own parish, made their appearance in the mission. In their 
usual manner, they demanded something from the missionary, for the purpose 
of finding a pretext for quarrelling and commencing their hostilities, in case the 
priest should disappoint them in their wishes. But their behavior, and the 
arms which they all carried with them, soon convinced the missionary that they 
had other designs, and he consequently not only complied with their requests, 
but gave them even more than they demanded. Being thus bafiled in their 
attempt, and full of eagerness to carry out their bloody plan, they put aside all 
dissimulation and attacked the missionary without further delay. They threw 
him on the ground, dragged him into the open air, and discharged their arrows 
upon him. One of their number, whom the father had a short time before pre- 
sented with a large knife, added ingratitude to cruelty by burying the weapon 
in his body. 
Thus the Fathers Tamaral and Carranco were led to the shambles by their 
own flock, and closed their days in California, after they had spent many years 
in that country, and, by a blameless life and great zeal, proved themselves 
worthy to die the death of martyrs. The abuses to which the savages sub- 
jected the body of the deceased priest were greater, in this instance, and they 
exhibited more wantonness in the destruction of the church and other property 
than on the preceding day, because the crowd was larger and had become more 
infuriated by previous success. 
Father 'Taraval, of St. Rosa, the third priest of whom they intended to make 
a victim, succeeded in making good his flight. He sojourned for the moment 
on the western coast of California, at the station of All Saints, which formed an 
adjunct to his own mission, and was a two days’ journey distant from St. Joseph. 
Being warned in due time by some faithful Indians of the danger that threat- 
ened him, he packed up in great haste his most needful things and rode at full 
speed, in company with his two soldiers, during the night of the fourth of Octo- 
ber towards the opposite shore of the peninsula, where he embarked near the 
mission of La Paz in a small vessel, which had been despatched to that place 
when the first news of the impending rebellion became known. He landed in 
safety at the mission of the Seven Dolors, then situated near the sea; leaving 
behind him the smoking ruins of four missions that had been totally destroyed 
in less than four days, but which could only be rebuilt and raised to their former 
importance with great sacrifices of time, labor, and human life. 
The rebels, however, fared badly, and had no eause to glory in their triumph. 
The southern tribes, whose number was four thousand souls at the outbreak of 
the revolt, are now reduced to four hundred, for not only was war waged against 
