There was no rancheria in the vicinity, but they were much interested in the growth of the corn and beans sown by the padre, and which, being on good and well-watered land, yielded abundantly.
[Illustration: MISSION SAN GABRIEL ARCANGEL.] [Illustration: SAN LUIS OBISPO BEFORE RESTORATION.] [Illustration: RUINED MISSION OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO.

Showing campanile and protected arched corridors.] [Illustration: THE RESTORED MISSION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO.] In 1776 certain gentiles, who were hostile to some Indians that were sheltered by the padres, attacked the Mission by discharging burning arrows upon the tule roof of the buildings, and everything was destroyed, save the church and the granary.

Rivera came at once, captured two of the ringleaders, and sent them for punishment to the Monterey presidio.

The success of the gentiles led them to repeat their attacks by setting fire to the Mission twice during the next ten years, and it was these calamities that led one of the San Luis padres to attempt the making of roof tiles.

Being successful, it was not long before all the Missions were so roofed.
In 1794 certain of the neophytes of San Luis and La Purisima conspired with some gentiles to incite the Indians at San Luis to revolt, but the arrest and deportation of fifteen or twenty of the ringleaders to Monterey, to hard labor at the presidio, put a stop to the revolt.
Padres Lasuen and Tapis both served here as missionaries, and in 1798 Luis Antonio Martinez, one of the best known of the padres, began his long term of service at San Luis.