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Show FRANCISCO VASQUEZ CORONADO 217 There was one other village which the Indians had occupied and barricaded; this was reduced by a force under the captains, Diego de Guevara and Juan de Salvidar. At this village, some of the Spaniards having started out one morning for the purpose of an ambuscade by which they thought to capture some of the warriors who were accustomed every morning to come out in a vain endeavor to frighten the Spanish soldiery, the guards who had been placed where they could see when the Indians left the village, saw the natives come out and proceed toward the country. The soldiers left their ambuscade and going to the village saw the people in full flight. They were pursued and large numbers were mercilessly slain. The town was then plundered by the Spaniards and prisoners were made of all who were in it, numbering about one hundred women and children. During the siege of these two villages the captain-general had found time to visit Cicuyé, where he replaced in power the cacique whom Alvarado had brought to Tiguex in chains, because he would not reveal the whereabouts of the golden bracelets taken from El Turco by the natives of that pueblo. He also promised the Indians that as soon as he started for the country restore to them their chief, Bigotes. of El Turco he would After the reduction of the two villages, Coronado sent a captain and a small force to the pueblo of Cia,??® which had already given in its submission. recoger, con animo de rendirlos por falta de agua, ya que no por hambre, porque sabia tenian buenas trojes de maiz. Trataron de curar los heridos, aunque se enconaron, y se cicatrizaban; y segun se supo, era la causa el que en unas vasijas de mimbre encerraban los indios vivoras, y con las flechas las tocaban para que mordiesen las puntas y quedasen venenosas; y habiendose mentenido algun tiempo, cuando se esperaba padeciesen falta de agua, comenzé a nevar, con cuya nieve se socorrieron y mantuvieron dos meses, en los que ententaron los nuestros muchos desatinos; el uno fue formar undos ingenios con unos maderos que llamaban vaivenes, y son los entiguous arietes con que se batian las fortelezas en tiempo que no se conocia la polvera; mas no se acetaron; despues, por falta de artilleria, intentaron hacer unos cafiones de madera bien liados de cordeles 4 modo de cohetes; mas tampoco sirvio; y no arbitraron el arrimar lena 4 los muros y prenderles fuego; 4 mi ver entiendo que la crueldad con que quitaron la vida a los ciento y treita gandules, los hizo indignos del triunfo; y asi, en una noche los sitiados salieron y se pusieron en fuga, dejando a los nuestros burlados y sin cosa de provecho que lohrassen por despojos de la plaza sitiada y se salieron los indios con su valeroso hecho.’’ 229 The Pueblo of Cia still stands in about the place indicated. The present village is surrounded by ruins of old pueblos formerly inhabited by the same stock. In 1582, Espejo says, Relacion del Viage, p. 178: ‘‘Hallamos otro |
