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was there ? No answer being returned, I repeated the ques¬ 
tion in a stern voice, when a man outside replied, £ Nicholas 
Alviso.’ He being a near neighbor I answered, £ very well,’ 
and told one of those present to light a candle. But while 
this was being done, a number of people outside called out, 
£ Where is Graham 1 Tear the devil in pieces!’ and imme¬ 
diately afterward rushed with great violence against the door. 
I told them to wait a moment, but they cried out with still 
greater clamor for Graham, and seemed to rush toward the 
house where he slept. Quite a number, however, remained 
at the distillery, beating at the door in a savage manner and 
threatening death to the inmates. I drew my pistols, and at 
that instant Nicholas Alviso called aloud for all hands to beat 
down the door. On they came against it; I fired; and they 
returned the fire and wounded me in the left side. I then 
seized my rifie and snapped it at them ; they retreated, and 
I escaped into the swamp in the rear of Graham’s house. 
After concealing myself among the bushes, I saw fifteen 
or twenty men with drawn swords making most deadly blows 
at Messrs. Graham and Neil. I heard Ankel Castro give 
orders to hew them down; Garner urged them to do the same. 
u I remained in the swamp till late the next night, when 
I walked eight miles to the farm of Mr. Littlejohn, where 
I remained two days. Then, with an Indian to guide me, 
I rode to the mission of Santa Cruz on the north side of 
Monterey Bay. Here I called at the houses of Messrs. Dye 
and Young; told them what had happened, and went up 
among the hills for safety. 
a On the sixteenth, Francisco Young came to me and said, 
that Captain Burlinen had come after me with a company of 
rillemen. He assured me that I should not be put to death or 
manacled if I surrendered myself without resistance. I con¬ 
cluded after some hesitation to do so, and followed him down 
to Mr. Dye’s distillery. There I found Captain Burlinen, with 
eleven Californians, armed with the rifles which they had 
taken from the Britons and Americans. After obtaining a 
