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Show 328 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY “yaar concentrated the entire native strength in opposition to the ascent, Meanwhile, with twelve men, who had been concealed during the previous night, he mounted the other pefiol and gained the summit without serious effort. This force was quickly reénforced and during the entire day the conflict waged, both at the pass, which existed between the two plateaux, and at the entrance to the one not yet gained. During all of two days and a portion of a third the battle raged, in which there were many personal conflicts, desperate charges, and many acts of bravery on the part of Christian and savage. During the last day of the battle the pueblo was set on fire and hundreds killed each other or threw themselves from the cliff in their desperation. Finally, on the 24th, the entire pueblo was in possession of the Spaniards, which they proceeded to de- Stroy, at the same time giving no quarter to the natives, RELACION Df oe | DESC ‘DEL Villagré, in his poem, promised the king to continue authority over all the his nar- right and NVOVO MEXICO: halladas de nueuo;Venida de las Indias, a Efpaiia,y de allimandada a Roma A 10. DE MONTOYA who his RKVBIMIENTO Y de otras muchas Prouincias, y Ciudades, were ruthlessly slaughtered by the hundreds. Estimating the population of the pueblo at two thousand, the Spaniards say that only six hundred escaped the sword. These, under the leadership of a chief named Chumpo, surrendered, and came down upon the plain to settle. With the fall of Acoma the regular documentary record ceases. ration but it seems that this was never done.?29 Ofiate’s prompt punishment of this tribe fixed 7am Cantabro,Decano en Santiago delos Efpafioles de Roma. country. Terrified by the courage of the Spaniards in thus successfully assaulting and subduing the strongest defenses and the most warlike tribe of the country, the natives felt that opposition was useless. On the second of March the governor wrote to the viceroy telling him all that had happened, what he had accomplished, the lands he had conquered, and sent him samples of the products oe Con Licencia delosSuperiorss. — i “ 1 he account by Villagré and that contained in the Y tinerario differ as to © termination of the battle of Acoma. Captain Villagra implies that it lasted three days, when Chumpo and the six hundred natives surrendered. Ytinerario intimates that the fight lasted The from the evening of the 22nd to that a eee. following day, when the Indians Surrendered, but the Spaniards did not mealiesancewa ; whereupon —— randy 24th, when the survivors of the Indians made further ‘*hizose la matanza y castigo de los mas dellos, y Sangre; y de todo punto se asol6 y quemé el pueblo. ’’ ’ 4 fuego Ofiate Says that Acoma had about three thousand Indians ‘al qual en castigo de su maldad traici ee abrase todoey es ,’? ar ‘erm? yY para esca rmiento 46 los demas : , lo asole y a N ROMA, Py Fac-simile From Per Bartholame Benfadier, téey, é of copy Title Page of Mexico, by Fr. in John Narrative Montoya. of the Rome, Gilmary Shea collection, Washington, D. C. Precats 1602 Georgetown ry of University, New |