The officers shut up one of these hostiles, whereat a party of his comrades rushed to the rescue, fired their arrows at the Mission, and were only driven back when the soldiers arrived and fired their muskets in the air.

Next day the sergeant went out to make arrests and another struggle ensued, in which one was killed and one wounded.

All now sued for peace, which, with sundry floggings, was granted.

For three months they now kept away from the Mission.
In 1777 they began to return, and on October 4, Padre Serra, on his first visit, was able to say mass in the presence of seventeen adult native converts.

Then, passing over to the presidio on October 10, as he stood gazing on the waters flowing out to the setting sun through the purple walls of the Golden Gate, he exclaimed with a heart too full of thanksgiving to be longer restrained: "Thanks be to God that now our father St.Francis with the Holy Cross of the Procession of Missions, has reached the last limit of the Californian continent.