ay neophytes. The culprits belonged
to the rancheria of the Chaclanes, and, says Perez-Fernandez, "these
rancherias of the Chaclanes are in the country where the said Father
Danti wanted to go, and whom I prevented from going, as I told your
Excellency under date of November 29 last."

A lively correspondence ensued, reference to most of which may be
omitted. An investigation was inaugurated and some type of scouting
party was sent out. At least, we have record of a letter dated at
Monterey, June 2, 1795, from Governor Borica to Jose Perez (Bancroft
Trans., Prov. Rec., V: 56) in which the Governor orders Perez "to tell
Sergeant Amador that he has received the report he sent concerning the
reconnaissance to the Alameda, and that he shall continue this with the
others who went with him." This is no doubt the expedition by Amador
referred to by Danti in his diary (see below).

On June 23, 1795, from Monterey, Governor Borica rendered a full and
final account of the affair to Viceroy Branciforte (Archivo General de
la Nacion, Californias, Vol. 65, Expediente no. 3, "Sobra la muerte ..."
etc. Doc. no. 122, MS p. 79). Parts of this document are worth quoting.
One of the survivors was a neophyte named Othon, whose story follows.

Five old Christian Indians set out from the San Francisco
Mission, including the alcaldes Pasqual and Rogerio, together
with nine new Christians of the rancherias from the other shore
of the bay, with orders from Father Missionary Fray Antonio
Danti to bring back all the Christians who had run away. On the
first day they crossed the bay in their boats and slept on the
beach. On the second day at dawn they set out for the rancheria
of the Chaclanes where they arrived at noon, and not having
found any people in it, they kept on all that day and all night,
travelling without sleep or rest, in spite of the rain, and
reached the rancheria of the Chimenes at about two o'clock in
the afternoon. They encountered there a great multitude, as many
as there are in the mission [perhaps 900, according to Borica].
The men, armed with bows and arrows, came out of a big temascal
with such a rush that they broke it to pieces, immediately
beginning to shoot arrows, shouting, "Kill our enemies." The
alcaldes, seeing this violence, tried to persuade the natives
that we had not come to fight or to do harm, but the others took
no heed and kept on