Excerpt from A Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura, California: Illustrated, Containing a History of This Important Section of the Pacific Coast From the Earliest Period of Its Occupancy to the Present Time, Together With Glimpses of Its Prospective Future, With Profuse Illustrations of Its Beautiful Scenery

The presidio had eight guns, all but one of brass, from one to six pounds of caliber. Half of these were distributed among the missions, but they were not in use, as there was no hostility among the Indians, and the foreign disturber as yet appeared not.

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