said that since May 20th the neophytes at San Diego had managed temporal affairs for themselves — except the wine-cellars. Anzar said he was a Mexican, and would cheerfully coöperate with the governor if permitted. Zalvidea would be glad personally to be relieved of the burden. He had toiled over twenty years and had not saved a medio real.[1] There is no record that Echeandía took any further steps before the end of 1832.
Padre Antonio Peyri left California at the beginning of the year with Victoria; and Padre Antonio Menendez, a Dominican who for some six years had served as chaplain at different places, died in August. There may be noted here also as an interesting item, the arrival of two priests who remained about five years in the country. They were Jean Alexis Auguste Bachelot, apostolic prefect of the Sandwich Islands, and Patrick Short. The two, with a companion, had arrived at the Islands in July 1827 from France, to establish Catholic missions; but prejudice was aroused against their teachings, largely, it is believed, through the intrigues of protestant missionaries, and in December 1831 they were banished, "because their doings are different from ours, and because we cannot agree," as King Kaahuamanu stated it. They sailed on the Waverly, Sumner, master, which landed them at San Pedro on January 21, 1832, whence they were taken to San Gabriel and kindly treated. There is not much to be said of their stay in California. Bachelot remained at San Gabriel as assistant minister, his name appearing often in the mission registers. Short soon came north, and he was engaged with Hartnell in an educational enterprise at Monterey in 1834. An order came from Mexico to expel them as Jesuits and as having no papers; but the governor did not enforce it. In 1837, however, although the ayuntamiento of Los Angeles
- ↑ Vallejo, Doc., MS., xxxi. 25, copies of the letters attached to the reglamento.
