. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] SANTA BARBARA SANTA CATALINA DE LOS YUM AS 455 till several years later. Finally, on Dec. 4, 1786, the cross raised and blessed by Fr. Lasuen at a place called Taynayan by the natives, a mile or so from the pre- sidio. Owing to it beingthe rainy season, buildings were not begun initil later. By 1790 there were 438 neophytes. A church 18 X 90 ft, and numerous other buildings, all roofed with tiles, had been completed. In the next 10 years the number of neo- phytes increased to only 864, though 1,237 were baptized and only 624 had died. Probably some of the
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] SANTA BARBARA SANTA CATALINA DE LOS YUM AS 455 till several years later. Finally, on Dec. 4, 1786, the cross raised and blessed by Fr. Lasuen at a place called Taynayan by the natives, a mile or so from the pre- sidio. Owing to it beingthe rainy season, buildings were not begun initil later. By 1790 there were 438 neophytes. A church 18 X 90 ft, and numerous other buildings, all roofed with tiles, had been completed. In the next 10 years the number of neo- phytes increased to only 864, though 1,237 were baptized and only 624 had died. Probably some of the others had been allowed to live in their own villages away from the mission. A new church was finished in 1794, and by 1800 quite a number of new buildings had been erected. At that time there were 60 neo- phytes engaged in making and weaving cloth, while a carpenter and a tanner were regularly employed to teach the na- tives those trades. Within the next few years 234 adobe houses were erected for the neophytes. In 1803 a mission chapel was built at San Miguel. In 1801 an epi- demic carried off a great num- ber of the na- tives and caused the neophytes, through a pre- tended revela- tion of their old deities, tem- porarily to re- nounce Chris- tianity, though the Fathers knew nothing of this until later. The greatest number of neophytes, 1,792, was reached in 1803; in 1810 there were 1,355. The crops were good, aver- aging 6,216 bushels for the preceding decade; the large stock numbered 5,670, and small stock 8,190. During the fol- lowing decade the crops increased some- what, but the stock declined. The earth- quake of 1812 injured rather seriously the church, and a new one, 40 X 165 ft, was begun in 1815, and completed and dedi- cated in 1820. This is still standing. The walls are 6 ft thick, of irregular sandstone blocks laid in cement, Avhile the towers, 20 ft square, are, with the exception of a narrow passageway in one of them, solid masses of stone and cement to a heigh
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