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promise from the captain that my life should not be taken 
and that I should not be put in irons or otherwise hound, I 
delivered my rifle to him and became his prisoner. I was 
then marched down to the Mission of Santa Cruz between 
the soldiers, and put under guard until the next morning. 
u Soon after sunrise on the seventeenth they began pre¬ 
parations for taking me to Monterey. I had, when escap¬ 
ing from Graham’s premises, left most of my clothing, and 
not knowing in what this affair might end, I desired the 
captain to take me by that route. To this he consented. 
But it was of no service to me; for I found both my port¬ 
manteaus broken open and all my clothing stolen. Mr. Niel 
was in the house. He had been badly wounded in the af¬ 
fray of the sixth. A lance bed been thrust through his 
thigh, and a deep sabre cut inflicted upon the leg. He told 
me that the Botany Bay Garner did it. I saw several 
balls sticking in the walls of the bedroom in which Mr. Niel 
lay. The floor was much stained with blood. The pre¬ 
mises had been plundered. We stayed at Graham’s house 
an hour, and proceeded towards Monterey. 
a l arrived in town the next day. It was occupied by sol¬ 
diers, and the prisons filled with foreigners. They immedi¬ 
ately put me in double-irons, and carried me before a body of 
men who pretended to act as a court of justice. I desired 
that Mr. Spence, the alcalde, might be sent for as an inter¬ 
preter. But they would not allow it. They said I must be 
content with the one they had provided. His name was 
Nariago. He was by no means capable of the task. But I 
was compelled to take him or none, and go into the exami¬ 
nation. I was sworn ; and then the interpreter said it was 
well known that I had been writing letters against the gov¬ 
ernment. I asked him to produce the letters, that I might 
see them. He replied, c that it is not necessary.’ He then 
said that Mr. Graham was at the head of an attempted revo¬ 
lutionary movement against the government, and that I 
knew something about it. I replied that I had never heard 
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