ever, had taken advantage of the darkness of night and had fled. Vallejo started in pursuit. He en camped that night on the Rio Laquisimes, and next morning surrounded a part of the fugitives in another thicket near their ranchería on the Arroyo Seco. Here there were some negotiations, but the Indians declared they would die rather than surrender, and late in the afternoon the attack was begun. A road was cut through the chaparral with axes, along which the field-piece and muskets were pressed forward and continually discharged. The foe retired slowly to their ditches and embankments in the centre, wounding eight of the advancing soldiers. When the cannon was close to the trenches the ammunition gave out, which fact, and the heat of the burning thicket, forced the men to retreat. During the night the besieged Indians tried to escape one by one, some succeeding, but many being killed. Next morning nothing was found but dead bodies and three living women. That day, June 1st, at noon, provisions being exhausted, Vallejo started for San José, where he arrived on the fourth.[1]
- ↑ Vallejo, Campaña contra Estanislao y sus Indios sublevados, 1829, MS. This is the commander's official report dated at S. José June 4th. Piña, Diario de la Expedition al Valle de San José, 1829. This is a diary kept by Corp. Joaquin Piña of the artillery, who accompanied the expedition. It extends from May 19th, the date of departure from Monterey, to June 13th, when they returned to Monterey. The details, beyond the limits of the actual campaign as given in my text, are unimportant. The original MS. was given me by Gen. Vallejo. June 5th, Martinez congratulates Vallejo on his defeat of the rebels at Los Rios. Regrets that he could not follow up the advantage gained. Orders him to S. Francisco to plan further operations. Vallejo, Doc., MS., i. 175. Dec. 31st, Martinez states in the hojas de servicios of Vallejo and Sanchez that no decisive results were obtained, though 4 men were killed (?) and 11 wounded. Id., i. 204; xx. 142. Oct. 7th, Echeandía pardons neophytes who had been in rebellion. Dept. Rec., MS., vii. 230. Alvarado's narrative of this campaign, Hist. Cal., MS., ii. 57-08, drawn evidently from his imagination, is so wonderfully inaccurate that no condensation can do it justice, and I have no space to reproduce it in full. Osio, Hist. Cal., MS., 133-8, gives an account considerably more accurate than that of Alvarado, which is not saying much in its favor. He speaks of but one battle, in which the barricades of timber were broken down by the artillery, the order of no quarter was given by Vallejo, the infuriated auxiliaries wrought a terrible carnage among the foe, and the pits dug for defences were utilized as graves. Galindo, Apuntes, MS., 22-6, names two soldiers, Espinosa and Soto, as fatally wounded, and says that Estanislao was captured. Bojorges, Recuerdos, MS., 14-22, who confounds the three expeditions, names Peña
