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The next act of Captain Castro which history will delight 
to record, was that of arresting certain persons at Santa Bar¬ 
bara supposed to be favorable to the pretensions of the Don; 
namely, Pedro C. Carrillo, the old Don’s son, and a Don An¬ 
gelo, former Administrador of the Port of Monterey, under 
the late Mexican authorities. The former he put on board 
the bark Kamamula, and sent to sea for safe keeping; the 
latter was transmitted to Monterey as a trophy of the glorious 
victory achieved by the Grand Army of six at Santa Barbara. 
Captain Castro tarried only two days at Santa Barbara. 
But during that short space of time he was enabled, by using 
that indefatigable industry and intrepidity for which he was 
so remarkable, to make the two arrests which I have men¬ 
tioned. And although it has been said by persons presumed 
to be envious of the Captain’s right to call himself the Napo¬ 
leon of California, that these prisoners made no attempt to 
escape, but, on the contrary, surrendered themselves without 
resist ance, yet the impartial historian will undoubtedly find, 
on thorough investigation, that he who captured Graham and 
others with so much bravery and renown, could not, in the 
possibility of things, have done this act so tamely as the ene¬ 
mies of the Captain would maliciously represent. Captain 
Castro was a Napoleon, and by what specious sophistry can 
mankind be made to believe that he did not arrest Seiiores 
Pedro and Angelo, in a manner worthy of that immortal 
name ? 
On the third day, the Grand Army of the North being in¬ 
creased by the people of Santa Barbara to one hundred men, 
and supplied with three field-pieces, moved against the Grand 
Army of the South at San Buenaventura. They arrived in 
the night; and while the darkness shielded them from view, 
they planted the cannon on the heights overlooking the Mis¬ 
sion, and otherwise prepared themselves for the horrors of 
the coming day. When the morning dawned, the Captain 
had the satisfaction to perceive that his position had been so 
well taken that the garrison of the opposing forces was com- 
