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288 depart. Neither Híjar nor Padrés was arrested at Solano, but at San Francisco on March 26th they went on board the Rosa in obedience to Figueroa's orders as exhibited by Vallejo, and the vessel sailed for Monterey.

The Rosa, after lying at anchor in the port of Monterey for a week or more, carried the prisoners down to Santa Bárbara, where — numbering with their families twenty-four persons — they arrived on April 16th, and three days later were transferred to the American brig Loriot, with the supercargo of which vessel Figueroa had made a contract for transporting them with Torres and Apalátegui to San Blas. On May 8th-9th the Loriot was at San Pedro, but the exact date of sailing for San Blas does not appear in the record. Before his departure, Padrés addressed to Figueroa a formal and indignant protest against the summary and illegal treatment which he had received, accusing the governor of having been influenced from the first by hostility to the colony. With the exiles were