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richly decorated. This was the only building in the whole
"presidio" having windows of glass. The living chambers of
the officers, as well as soldiers, were nothing other than
enormous barns, furnished in the manner of Russian peasant
houses with benches all round the room, and with a big table
in the front corner.7 Not a single one had frames with glass,
and the windows were protected from the sun by movable screens,
and from the cold by wooden slats instead of shutters.

Five leagues inland from the "presidio" was located the
Mission of San Francisco. Two Franciscan monks, Padre Khozev
and Padre Blazius, managed it. It consisted of the abode of
these monks completely similar to the above described rooms of
officers in the "presidio." An enormous church without a
steeple, very richly adorned, stood detached beyond it. Then
followed a great number of buildings in which were housed sev-
eral cavalrymen, the natives converted to Christianity, num-
bering about 800 of both sexes, and granaries and other store-
houses and workshops, in which were produced various works
by the Indians. In the blacksmith and carpenter shops, they
manufactured agricultural tools and horseshoes, made very good
saber blades, and drilled rifle barrels--all this, not by
machinery, but by hand. They also tanned from deer and sheep-
skins, good red and white suede [buckskin], and from bullhides,
shoe soles and tanned calf leather. They impress the suede
with designs, not [stamped] all at once with a machine, but
by damasking with a hammer along stencils. These damasked