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at this sight, the mariners and soldiers, leaped ashore into the 
thickest of their foes and gave them battle. A few minutes 
with fire-arms settled the question of victory. Some of the 
villains were wounded, some killed, and four captured alive 
and taken on board the ship. The narrators saw the ship 
leave her anchorage and stand away for the Pacific. They 
know nothing more. It soon appears, however, that the 
Captain left port without making any other attempt to pro¬ 
cure water or provisions; and having put into Acapulco, 
sent his four prisoners and an account of the murder of his 
crew to Mexico. The Viceroy now begins to appreciate the 
importance of protecting the missions of California. The 
lives of the Padres a short time before could not be pre¬ 
served without a special warrant from Madrid. But as his 
own credit at Court would suffer from the representations of 
the officers of the galleon, it becomes a moral duty to quell 
the insurrection. Accordingly he sends orders to the gover¬ 
nor of Cinaloa to go over to the peninsula with a sufficient 
body of men to restore peace, but directs him to act inde¬ 
pendently of the Padres and never in subordination to the 
Captain of the garrison. These measures of the Viceroy are 
made known in California, and Padre Guillen, in order to 
facilitate their execution, despatches the bilander for the 
governor and his forces, and at the same time directs the Cap¬ 
tain of the garrison to repair to Dolores, and there remain on 
the defensive until further orders. 
In due time the bilander returns. The governor is received 
with great respect and joy by the Padres, and with the cus¬ 
tomary honors by the garrison. Pie, however, soon shows 
that he intends to reject all advice from the former and act in the 
reduction of the country as he shall think proper. He there¬ 
fore spends two years in manoeuvering, and attempted hostili¬ 
ties with a fugitive foe, whom he knows not how to bring 
into a general engagement. At the close of the year 1736, 
he is obliged to confess that he has effected nothing for the 
suppression of the rebellion. 
