San Diego county, California; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . or the use of visiting friars and forthe storage of mission supplies, were given up to the military. In Septemberof this year there was some trouble with troops which had been sent up fromSinaloa. The following year, at the time of the destruction of the mission, theforce at the Presidio consisted of a corporal and ten men. In the panic causedby this tragedy, all the stores and families at the Presidio were hastily removedto the old friars house, the roof of that building was covered with earth topre
San Diego county, California; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . or the use of visiting friars and forthe storage of mission supplies, were given up to the military. In Septemberof this year there was some trouble with troops which had been sent up fromSinaloa. The following year, at the time of the destruction of the mission, theforce at the Presidio consisted of a corporal and ten men. In the panic causedby this tragedy, all the stores and families at the Presidio were hastily removedto the old friars house, the roof of that building was covered with earth toprevent its being set on fire, and the time of waiting for the arrival of reinforce-ments was spent in fear and trembling. The work of collecting stones to be used in laying the foundations for thenew adobe wall to replace the wooden stockade was begun in 1778 and the con-struction of the wall soon followed. The population of the Presidio was thenabout one hundred and twenty-five. Small parties of soldiers arrived anddeparted and some effort was expended in attempts to find improved routes of. OLD TOWN ABOUT 1867 HISTORY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY 81 travel through the country. In 1782, the old church within the presidial enclos-ure was burned. Two years later, the regulations required the presidial forceto consist of five corporals and forty-six soldiers, men being always onguard at the mission. The visit of the famous English navigator, George Vancouver, in the Dis-covery in 1793, was the most important event breaking the monotony of theseearly years. His was the first foreign vessel that ever entered the San Diegoharbor. He arrived on the 27th day of November and remained twelve presence disturbed and alarmed the Spanish officials, who did not relish thesight of the British flag in Californian waters. The San Diego commandant,however, treated him with courtesy and relaxed the rigid port regulations in hisfavor, so far as lay within his power. Vancouver gave Father Lasuen
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