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Show 440 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY and reached Acoma, but the governor with his force from Santa Fé did not join them, owing to a campaign against the Comanches, who were raiding the friendly pueblos and settlers on the north and east of the capital. The viceroy was very angry over the failure of this campaign, although he later accepted the governor’s explanation. In the same year, Fr. J. Miguel Menchero came to New Mexico again as visitador, and, accompanied from El Paso by a large party, turned west from the Jornada del Muerto, reached the upper waters of the Gila, and thence north to Acoma. The same year thirty-three Frenchmen visited the Comanches at Rio de Jicarilla and sold them firearms.**® It was believed that in this party were some who had visited New Mexico before, and hostile designs upon the Spanish that the province. French entertained 2 : , ; \ The Franciscans had been very much exercised over the possible necessity of being compelled to surrender the Moqui field to the Jesuits. As has been said, the former complained of lack of assistance from the governor in their efforts to bring the Moquis , | ' »)' TAL r to the Bandelier says that after 1684 the tribe was composed of Lipan, Mescalero, and other Apache stragglers, together with renegade Suma, Toboso, Tarahumare, and Opata Indians and Spanish eaptives. Missions were established among them at an early date at Janos and Carretas, but were abandoned on account of con- stant Apache century language. raids. frequently See Kino The mention (1690) Jesuit them, missionaries but of nothing the first is known of half of the 18th their customs or in Doc. Hist. Memx., 4th s., i, 230, 1856. 457 Mr. Hodge, Handbook of American Indians, p. 350, says that Corodeguachi was an Opata pueblo on the headwaters of the Sonora river, in the northeastern part of Sonora, about 25 miles below the boundary of Arizona. It was the seat of the Spanish mission of Santa Rosa, founded in 1653, and of the presidio of Fronteras, established in 1690. In 1689 the mission was abandoned on account of the hostilities of the Janos, Jocome, Suma, and Apache; and owing to Apache depredations in more recent times the settlement was deserted on several occasions, once as late as 1847. #58 Ibid. A former Sobaipuri settlement and the seat of a Spanish mission established about 1720-32, situated on the west bank of Rio Santa Cruz, below Tubac, at or near the present Nogales, Arizona-Sonora boundary. In 1750 it was plundered by the Indians and abandoned, but was re-occupied two years later as a mission under the protection of Tubac. In 1760-64 Guevavi contained 111 natives; in 1772, 86, and with its visitas (Calabazas, Jamac, Sonoita, anf Tumacocori), 337. It was abandoned before 1784. 459 Bandelier, A. F., Investigations in the Southwest, part i, p. 212: aa savage Indian grasped the utility of the horse and of firearms with much greater vigor than sedentary tribes, and the complaint is often heard that the Apaches, as well as the Comanches, were better armed and better equipped than the or against their incursions. Mexico, 1776, Ms. P- 124, says: ‘‘Losy Cumanches . . . no les intimidan las armas porque las usan manejan con mas destreza que sus maestros.’’ de fueg% 1. : on Viceroys of New Pedro de Castro Spain, 1740-1760 | Figueroa, Duke de la Conquista, 1740-1741. de Guémes y Horcasitas, Condé de Revillagigedo, von Juan Francisco 174¢46-55. = D n Agustin de Ahumada y Villaon, Marqués Dy n Francisco Cajigal de la Vega, 1760. de las Amarillas, in el Nuevo Rs Mexico s Se 3 ax ys Histéricos sobre cy Oe eta Bonilla, Apuntes - Antonio eee - Spanish soldiers who pretended to defend New mMaceh |