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318 made an effort to retain him as curate, Bachelot, accompanied by Short, sailed on the Clementina, and landed at the Islands in April. Persecutions were renewed, from which they were relieved by the French and English navigators Petit-Thouars and Belcher. Short sailed in October for Valparaiso, and Bachelot soon departed for the South Sea Islands, dying on the voyage in 1838.

With Governor Figueroa, at the beginning of 1833, there came to California a missionary reënforcement of ten friars. They were Franciscans, all Mexicans by birth, and belonged to the college of Nuestra Señora do Guadalupe de Zacatecas, being called Guadalupanos, or more commonly, Zacatecanos, as the earlier friars had been known as Fernandinos from the name of their college. Immediately after their arrival, that is in February, they were put in charge of the seven missions from San Cárlos northward, their prefect, Francisco García Diego, going to reside at Santa Clara. The Fernandinos of these missions retired to the southern establishments.