This account is given in a clipping from an unspecified newspaper, presumably of 1864. The piece has no title. It is included in Alexander S. Taylor's collection, Discoverers, Founders and Pioneers of California (2:153). My father, said he [i.e., Olivera],... was one of a company of sixty mounted men under the Alferez Gabriel Moraga, accompanied by the Padre Muñoz for chaplain, who left Monterey in August, 1806 ... and crossed over into the Tulares by the way of San Juan Bautista.... We traversed the whole of the country from where the San Joaquin comes out of the Sierra Nevada to a long way up north along the Sacramento River and found multitudes of Indians everywhere along the streams.[43] We passed fifteen days at one camp on the Sacramento, whence we made trips up into the snowy mountains.... We were obliged to encounter great dangers in this trip and did not get back till November after being out over a hundred days,[44] for, from the melting of the snows and the overflowing of the rivers and not knowing our whereabouts, we had to keep well on the lower hills and creep along by the eastern trail the best way we could until we found ourselves near the King's River and the Big Lakes,[45] and picked our way among great numbers of Indian rancherias, until we came to the passes called the Tejon and Las Ulvas, and so made our exit at the Mission of San Fernando.... There was also another expedition from Santa Barbara in the fall of 1815, which went over into the Tulares, where they met another party from Monterey who had come through the Estrella from San Miguel. That was commanded by Captain Juan Ortega, when Don Pablo Vicente de Sola was Governor. I was also along with it, but we did nothing particular, excepting to bring in a great many Indians for the reverend Padres to make Christians of. The _pobre infelices_ lived like so many brutes in dirt and filth, and were always fighting each other like so many wild cats and dogs, _muy mestanjes_. The girls among them used to run after the soldiers--_pobrecitas_--and the people gave us the orphan children, and in this way many of their souls were saved who would otherwise have been lost with the _diablos_. _Felipe Santiago García's Account of Moraga's 1807 Expedition_ Pertinent passages have been selected from a manuscript entitled "Story of an Old Dragoon of Monterey," in Alexander Taylor's Discoverers, Founders and Pioneers of California (2:141-151).