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The Old Franciscan Missions Of California

CHAPTER XIII
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SAN GABRIEL, ARCANGEL We have already seen that San Gabriel, the fourth Mission, was founded September 8, 1771.

The natives gave cheerful assistance in bringing timber, erecting the wooden buildings, covering them with tules, and constructing the stockade enclosure which surrounded them.

They also brought offerings of acorns and pine-nuts.

In a few days so many of them crowded into camp that Padre Somero went to San Diego for an addition to the guard, and returned with two extra men.

It was not long before the soldiers got into trouble, owing to their treatment of the Indian women, and an Indian attack, as before related, took place.


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