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Show PUEBLO ate TTS 5 Aaure REBELLION AND INDEPENDENCE 385 The Indians of the province or kingdom of New Mexico, as has been seen, had formally submitted to the Spanish authority. De Vargas, on his return to El Paso, left no ENTRADA BY DE VARGAS armed force or Spanish colonists at any IN 16938 point north of the region of El Paso. It can not be said, under these circumstances, that the authority of Spain had been firmly established, and subsequent events show this to have been the true condition of affairs after the general had retired to the presidio at El Paso. Upon receipt of the report made by De Vargas, the viceroy and his official advisers determined to supply De Vargas with the soldiers and colonists asked for by him. However, it required time to prepare for another entrada, to find the colonists and secure the soldiers and their necessary equipment. De Vargas, however, was impatient to proceed, and without waiting for the promised reénforcements, he assembled all the colonists he could induce to go with him at El Paso, about eight hundred persons in all, and with one hundred soldiers, on the 13th day of October, 1693, he set out on his march for the north. With him went seventeen friars under P. Fr. Salvador de San Antonio as custodio.*” The officers of the expedition were Lieutenant-General Luis Granillo, second in command, and the colonists were under the charge and supervision of Captain Juan Paez Hurtado. Other officers were the captains Roque de Madrid, José Arias, Antonio Jorge, Lazaro de Misquia, Rafael Tellez Jiron, Juan de Dios Lucero de : 890 Davis, W. W. H., The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico, note, p. 373, says: On the 24th day of November, 1692, by virtue of an order of the count of Galves, and the ministers of the Royal Junta, at Mexico, there was paid to Vargas the sum of $12,638.50, and on another order from the same officer, there were paid to him on the 8th of April, 1693, $29,783.62, in all $42,461.12, for the purpose of recruiting settlers for the Presidio of Santa Fé, and for their support for one year. Of this whole amount of forty-two thousand dollars and upward, It is alleged that De Vargas only expended seven thousand for the use of the emigrants; the remainder probably being spent for his private purposes. : : On the 14th day of September, according to the Santa Fé Archives, De Vargas published the fact that the 100 soldiers ordered by the viceroy to be enlisted for the garrison at Santa Fé should go north and that all of the original colonists who had fled from Santa Fé should go with them. In 1698 proceedings were taken against De Vargas, and it appears that he enlisted these soldiers without expense to the royal treasury, by advancing each one $150.00, which was later deducted from their pay. It Is also he obtained at Zacatecas, Sombrerete, and Fresnillo 27 families stated that |