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the funeral pile ! They next proceed to pillage the house 
and church ! The clothing and such furniture as they can use 
they keep. The crucifixes, the statues of saints, the altars, 
the chalice, the missal, and other things used in worship, they 
heap upon the burning body of the Padre. Amidst the 
wild exultations which accompany this act of contempt 
toward the religion of their murdered friend, the two domes¬ 
tics of the Padre come with the mules. Around these, as 
fresh objects of a fury not yet exhausted, they gather, and 
bid them kill the animals. No sooner have they done it, 
than the demon crowd pour a shower of arrows into them, 
and while still shrieking in the agonies of death, throw them 
upon the burning pile. 
After perpetrating these cruelties at San Jago, the murderers 
go toward the mission of San Josef. Their number is now 
greatly increased. The disaffected from all the southern parts of 
the peninsula, with many of the well-disposed who have joined 
them to save their own lives, are gathered together. This 
company now approach San Josef. It is the Sabbath. Pa¬ 
dre Tamaral’s prayers for his poor benighted flock have been 
offered at dawn. It is now eight o’clock. He is sitting in 
his house, meditating on the means of extending his useful¬ 
ness to these wretched Californians, when a party of the 
seditious, consisting chiefly of the Indians of his own mission, 
break in upon him, all demanding something, in order that, 
being refused, they may have a cause of quarrel with him. 
Perceiving their design, however, the Padre replies mildly, 
<c stay, my children, there is enough in the house to content 
you all.” Being thus disappointed in getting a pretence for 
resentment, and not waiting even to contrive any other ex¬ 
cuse, the very men who killed the Padre at San Jago, beat 
Padre Tamaral to the ground, drag him by the feet out of the 
house, and shoot arrows into his body. After this, the multi¬ 
tude rush up and demand that his throat shall be cut with the 
knife which he was accustomed to use in giving them food. 
This good man, like his brother martyr, prays for his mur- 
