His arrival caused quite a flutter of excitement both at the presidio and Mission, where he was kindly entertained.

The governor was afraid of this elaborate hospitality to the hated and feared English, and issued orders to the commandant providing for a more frigid reception in the future, so, on Vancouver's second visit, he did not find matters so agreeable, and grumbled accordingly.
Tiles were made and put on the church roofs in 1795; more houses were built for the neophytes, and all roofed with tiles.

Half a league of ditch was also dug around the potrero (pasture ground) and fields.
In 1806 San Francisco was enlivened by the presence of the Russian chamberlain, Rezanof, who had been on a special voyage around the world, and was driven by scurvy and want of provisions to the California settlements.

He was accompanied by Dr.G.H.von Langsdorff.

Langsdorff's account of the visit and reception at several points in California is interesting.