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Show CHAPTER THE EXPEDITION UNDER Don ANTONIO DE EsPEJO AND BERNARDINO BELTRAN UP THE Rio GRANDE DEL Norts — THEY VISIT MANY PUEBLOS AND RETURN BY WAY Taos OF mist O = ~ Ae) A ~~ —_— = AS — A ~ ca = a ~ VI THE PEcos RIVER— FRAY 1582 HE arrangements for the expedition into New Mexico, for the rescue of the friars, were made by Espejo with all the rapidity possible under the circumstances. Espejo was a very energetic man and, in a comparatively short period, all the necessary arrangements had been perfected. Fourteen soldiers volunteered for the entrada.28° The explorer furnished an abundant supply of arms and ammunition, taking with him also one hundred and fifteen horses and mules. A large number of Indian servants and camp followers were alsu attached to this expedition. commander and his small company left San Bartolomé on of November, 1582. They followed the same route down chos that had been taken by the friar Rodriguez and his and reached the junction with the Rio Grande, a distance nine leagues, after a journey of fifteen days.?* The the 10th the Conbrothers, of fifty- *80 The names of the soldiers who accompanied Espejo were Juan Lopez de Ibarra, Diego Perez de Lujan, Gaspar de Lujan, Cristobal Sanchez, Gregorio Hernandez, Juan Hernandez, Miguel Sanchez, Valenciano, with his wife and two sons, Lazaro Sanchez, and Miguel Sanchez Nevado, Pedro Hernandez de Almansa, Francisco Barreto (Barrero or Barroto), Bernardo de Luna (or Cuna), Juan de Frias, and Alonzo Miranda. Aparicio says there were one hundred horsemen. Vargas, 131-2, says there were Seventeen men and a woman; and he names Padre Pedro de Herredia. Es- Pejo, himself, in one letter, Expediente, 151, says he had fifteen men. Arlegui and Mota Padilla ruz. say there were two friars, the latter naming the second Juan de la *81 Espejo, Antonio de, Relacion del Viage, ete., is the best authority for the expedition and its members and equipment. The Relacion was written by Espejo one) at San Bartolomé, in October, 1583, immediately after his return from ® north. |