354 
VOYAGE TO THE 
CHAP. 
XIII. 
Nov. 
1826. 
and contain about 7000 converts. They are in order as follow from 
north to south : — 
> 
Converts. 
_ rSan Francisco Solano, estabhshed in 
1822, about 
1000 
.1 1 Sdn Raphael 
- 
1817 - 
250 
i < San F rancisco 
_ 
1776 - 
260 
j San Jose 
_ 
1797 - 
1800 
^ L Santa Clara 
- 
1777 - 
1500 
( Santa Cruz 
- 
1797 - 
300 
Si 1 San Juan 
- 
1797 - 
1100 
1 \ San Carlos 
- 
1770 - 
200 
^ [^La Soledad 
- 
— 
500 
6910 
S4n Antonio 
Buena Vistura 
S4n Miguel 
San F ernando 
S4n Luis 
Sdn Gabriel 
De la Purissima 
San Juan Capistran 
S4nta Ignes 
San Luis Rey 
- 
3000 
Santa Barbara 
San Tomaso 
I could not learn the number of Indians which are in each of the 
missions to the southward of Soledad, but they were stated collectively 
to amount to 20,000 : on this head I must observe that the padres 
either would not say, or did not know exactly, how many there were, 
even in their own missions, much less the number contained in 
those to the southward ; and the accounts were at all times so various 
that the above computation can be only an approximation. Almost all 
these establishments cultivate large portions of land, and rear cattle, 
the hides and taUow of which alone form a small trade, of which the 
importance may be judged from the fact of a merchant at Monterey 
having paid 36,000 dollars in one year to a mission, which was not one 
of the largest, for its hide, tallow, and Indian labour. Though the 
system they pursue is not calculated to raise the colony to any great 
prosperity, yet the neglect of the missions would not long precede the 
