He says that the time has come to make the expedition at San José. The primary object is to recover the fugitives from that mission and chastise the heathen Indians who are sheltering them, as well as to take away from them the horses which, according to what Father Narciso Duran has told him, are in their possession. He considers that Sergeant José Sanchez is competent to lead the expedition, but only because he [Argüello] feels himself indisposed. For this purpose he is sending forty men who have arrived from San Blas. He [Argüello] will instruct them day and night in the operation of their weapons. _[Governor] to Captain Luís Argüello_ Rancho Rey, October 13, 1819 (Cal. Arch., St. Pap., Sacramento, II: 243-244) He thinks the expedition must have started to the outskirts of San José for the purpose of recapturing the horses from the wild Indians, and he has given orders that Lieutenant Estudillo, with Sergeant Pico and thirty men, set out to make a campaign. _[Governor] to Captain Luís Argüello_ Monterey, November 3, 1819 (Cal. Arch., St. Pap., Sacramento, II: 244) He will bring to the attention of the viceroy the success of the campaign made against the village of the Muquelenis. _Father Juan Martinez to Governor Sola_ San Miguel, November 6, 1820 (Archbishop's Arch., IV (1): 174) Says that it is necessary, in compliance with his duty, to go to the villages of the Valley, Bubal, Telame, and Notonto, to confess and instruct.... He asks that he be furnished a guard for the trip so that it may be successful, both going and coming. _Father Esteban Tapis to Governor Sola_ San Juan Bautista, January 22, 1821 (Archbishop's Arch., IV (1): 199) Last night, to his pleasure, he was visited by thirty-three heathen recently arrived from the Tulare Valley in search of baptism. Seven of them were married to seven female converts. Three brought their women who are heathen. Thirteen are single young persons or adults from nine to forty years of age. Six are infants. They are from the villages of Hualquem, or Hualquemne, Notvolitch, Huohual, and Quisats. _José Canuto Boronda, "Notas Históricas sobre California," 1878_ The first campaign on which I went was to Kings River, which comes from the slopes of the mountains and enters Tulare Lake; from there it goes to the junction with the San Joaquin River. At that place there were several Indian villages which had given shelter to fugitive Christian Indians from the missions. They brought out the Christian Indians they had with them and promised in the future to shelter no more runaways. The custom was, if they defaulted on that promise or committed acts of hostility, to fall upon them with military power and capture them all, taking them by force to the missions in order to baptize them. [Pp. 2-3.]...