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Show THE CONQUEST OF NEW MEXICO 321 conspiracy was revealed to the commander, and owing to the tears and supplications of a majority of the colonists he granted a general pardon. Afterwards four men ran away with a band of horses, and Villagré and Marquez went in pursuit; they overtook them, and hung two of the men and recovered the animals. Villagra says that he went as far as Santa Barbara, and in this statement he is confirmed by the captain-general who says that they wrote to the viceroy from that place. It was not until the following November that Villagré returned to San Gabriel. In two weeks’ time a fine chapel was constructed, which was formaiy dedicated on the 8th of September with great ceremonies, and concluding with a sham battle between the Christians and Villagré says that during this particular time they were Moors. visited by many Indians from neighboring provinces, who came for the purpose of securing information as to the military strength of On the 9th of September there was an assembling the Spaniards. of all the native chieftains, and on this occasion Fr. Martinez apportioned *?* the pueblos into districts and over each appointed one 327 See ante, p. 313, note 317 from Palacio, Mexico, Trdves de los Siglos. Mr. Bancroft, in writing of the names of the several tribes and their identity, says: ‘*In the records of Ofate’s conquest, and especially in the Obediencia y Vassalaje and distribution of the friars, the names are very numerous, and doubtless in many instances very inaccurate, as written or printed; yet I have deemed it advisable to preserve them, and for the convenience of reader and student I append them in compact form, adding all the names that appear in earlier narratives. . . Fortunately, the identity of groups or leading pueblos presents few difficulties, and in nearly every group a few names have survived to modern times. The towns in the sixteenth century occupied the same general range of territory as in the nineteenth, but most of them were destroyed in the seventeenth, and many of those remaining were moved from their original sites. ’’ This list, compiled by Mr. Bancroft, is as nearly correct as is possible to be made, and the information therein is of so great importance that I have deemed it advisable to give it in full. Almost all of Bancroft’s information was taken from the Obediencias of the N. Mexico Traslado. That which appears in parenthesis was taken from the Ytinerario, the Historia of Captain Villagra, and other documents relating to the Onate entrada. The notes of earlier entradas and comments are enclosed in brackets. Mr. Bancroft says : ‘‘Under care of Fr. Francisco de S. Miguel, prov. of the Pecos (Santiago) with the 7 pueblos of the eastern Cienega, and the Vaquero, or wild tribes, of that region to the Sierra Nevada, and the pueblos of the ‘gran salina’ behind the pueblo of Puaray; and besides the pueblos of Quanquiz, Hohota, Xonalus Xatol, Xaimela, Aggey, Cuza, Cicentetpi, Acoli, Abbo (Ab6), Apena, Axauti, Amaxa, Couna, Dhiu, Alle, Atuyama, and Chein; and the three great pueblos of the Jumanas, or ‘rayados’ called in their language Tripuy, Genobey, Quelotetrey, and. Pataotrey. In the Obediencia of Oct. 12th, we have also in the |