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Show 216 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY go away he would really shoot him. Don Lope put on his helmet and slowly rode back to where the horsemen were, without receiving any harm from them. When they saw that he was really in safety, they began to shoot arrows in showers, with loud yells and cries. The general did not want to make an assault that day, in order to see if they could be brought in some way to make peace, which they would not consider.’’ Having withstood this siege for a period of two weeks longer, owing to the scarcity of provisions and particularly of water, the Indians determined to abandon the village. This was attempted during the night time. They came out of the village on the side where the cavalry was stationed. An alarm was quickly sounded in the camp of Don Rodrigo Maldonado. The Indians boldly attacked the Spanish cavalry, killing one soldier, one horse, and wounding several, but they were soon driven back with great execution, until they came to the river, where the current flowed swiftly and very cold. Into the water the Indians threw themselves. Only a few escaped the merciless onslaught of the Spaniards. Some succeeded in getting across the river, but were so benumbed that they could proceed no further and were captured the following day, brought to the Spanish camp, and reduced to slavery.??8 ST ITan 228 Castafieda, Relacion, Winship’s translation, p. 499-500. _Mota Padilla gives a very full account of the reduction of the village of Tiguex. In vol. xxxii, 8, p. 161, we find: ‘‘Habiendose puesto el cerco, estuvieron los indios rebeldes 4 los requerimientos, por lo que se intento abrir brecha, y rota la argamasa superficial, se advertié que el centro del muro era de palaizada, troncos y mimbres bien hincados en la tierra, por lo que resistian los golpes que daban con unas malas barras, en cuyo tiempo hacian de las azoteas mucho dafio en los nuestros con las piedras y con las flechas por las troneras; y quoriendo un soldado tapar con lodo una tronera de donde se hacia mucho dafio, por un ojo le entraron una flecha, de que cayé muerto; lamabase Francisco Pobares; y 4 otro que se llamaba Juan Paniagua, muy bien cristiano y persona noble, le dieron otro flechazo en el parpado de un ojo, y publicaba que 4 la devocion del rosario, que slempre razaba, debio la vida; otro soldado, llamado Francisco de Ovando, se gg de bruzas por una portalnueva, y apenas hubo asomado la cabeza, euando AN Ghidb Gite ee quitandole la vida; pusose una escala por Sieh chia doccctien, si — iia con arte, los indios tenian muchas rca rp que se no comunicasen ; Y como 4 cortas distancias os eobiavon ite He on a me na en y troneras, hacian mucho dafio, de suerte hermano de Hornaa, ssi » de tor murieron tres: un fulano, Carbajal, Praline do thar . eee a ue despuez tentiente de gobernador por di Cnetacde wy ie anne 3 = etia; tambien murié un vizeaino, llamado Alonzo ec : enitezy esto fue por culpa de ellos, pues pocas armas de fuego con ya que que ofender li hab muros, pues eran de troncones y palizad Veen ee pegado, f ae eerlos et stints 3 pahzadas conee solo el embarrad o de tierra. ; or el poco efecto de su imvasion, mandé se tocase a Grooved Hammers from Quivire Vv vale |