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venerable Padres. One of these two is, the next year, killed 
in an affray; and the other falls from the top of a palm tree 
upon some rocks, and is so horribly mutilated and torn as to 
be hardly recognizable. The remainder never return to their 
country. Thus, after three years of trepidation and violence, 
peace is restored to California. And it is chiefly attributable 
to the prudence and forbearance of the Padres that the whole 
peninsula has not been deluged with blood. 
The refusal of the Viceroy in the first instance to protect 
the missions without a special order from his sovereign, results 
in a commission from his Majesty requiring him to erect a new 
garrison at Cape San Lucas; and to take such other measures 
as may be required to support the missions and maintain the 
conquests of the Padres. This, like all other efforts of that 
nation in similar matters, is made when the utility and neces¬ 
sity of action is past. 
The Governor of Cinaloa, however, proceeds to the execu¬ 
tion of the order. The garrison is to be independent of the 
Padres, and of the commanding officer at Loretto, and subject 
only to orders from the Viceroy. The son of the venerable 
Captain Don Estevan Roderiguez Lorenzo is appointed to the 
command of the new post. He is a native of California, and 
having been brought up by his father under the care of the 
missionaries, and being pious, brave, prudent, and well ac¬ 
quainted with the country, is admirably qualified to fill the 
office. He has thirty soldiers under his command, ten of 
whom he stations at the new camp of San Josef del Cabo, 
ten at the mission of La Paz, and ten at that of San Jago de 
los Coras. The young captain, however, is not thought to 
act with sufficient indifference to the advice and opinions of 
the Padres; and is therefore soon displaced by a new man 
from Mexico, Don Pedro Alvarez de Acevedo. At the same 
time the Viceroy orders an accession of five soldiers to the 
garrison of Loretto, and particularly directs that the whole 
force shall be independent of the missionaries. They shall 
act as an escort, indeed, during their journeyings, but while so 
