By April 1, 1669, war and famine had nearly exhausted the kingdom: no road was safe because hostile patrols ranged everywhere, no crops had been harvested for three years, and many Christian Indians had starved and died along roads, in ravines, and in their huts, with towns such as Las Humanas losing more than 450 people to hunger; the calamity continued as no corn or wheat could be obtained at any price. In the 1670s, people from Quarai and the other Salinas missions moved back to the safety of the Rio Grande pueblos south and west of the mountains ahead.