To go farther he must have boats." The same month in which Palou dedicated the northern Mission, found Serra, with Padre Gregorio Amurrio and ten soldiers, wending their way from San Diego to San Juan Capistrano, the foundation of which had been delayed the year previous by the San Diego massacre.

They disinterred the bells and other buried materials and without delay founded the Mission.

With his customary zeal, Serra caused the bells to be hung and sounded, and said the dedicatory mass on November 1, 1776.

The original location of this Mission, named by the Indians _Sajirit_, was approximately the site of the present church, whose pathetic ruins speak eloquently of the frightful earthquake which later destroyed it.
Aroused by a letter from Viceroy Bucareli, Rivera hastened the establishment of the eighth Mission.

A place was found near the Guadalupe River, where the Indians named _Tares_ had four _rancherias_, and which they called _Thamien_.