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Show ba md is bed ¢ THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO ** 7 a ee ee e ee ee oe ee ee ed ee htt te Se eet ee Ee @ ee ee Be wll ay ed 2/4 he returned to Isleta; and, before arrivi ng overtaken by the detachment which had been there, was to the pueblos of the Rio Arriba, that is to say San Felipe, Santo Domingo, and Cochiti. Nothing of consequence was accomplished other than the capture of three apostates, or rather, it is better to say, one, for the other two surrender- ed voluntarily. Otermin wished to proceed with the campaign, but for the rigor of the winter, the extreme weakness of the horses, and also on account of the risk that the recent converts at Isleta might return to their apostasy for, at the Solicitation of the other rebels, one hundred and fifteen had, within a few days, returned to their apostasy and fled from the pueblo; in view of all this, determined to return promptly to the pueblo the governor , taking with him the said new converts of Isleta and the prisoners which he and the detachment which had gone to Cochiti had captured. The Isletas taken with him on this three hundred and eighty-five souls, and occasion were the prisoners were eight. Among them was a Christian Indian , a Queres of the pueblo of San Felipe, named Pedro Naranjo, a famous wizard and master teacher of idolat ry, who as such wasin great esteem with Po-pé. This Indian stated the oe of the uprising and the arrangemen O-pe with greater fullness, intelligence ts of the said , clearness, and versimilitude than any other. The motives reduce themSelves to two heads, which are: first, ra the old men retain for their ancienthe love which many t manner of living, a their idolatry, for the estufas and on account of the estruction of these during the rule of the governor T'revino; second: the vexations and il] treatment which had been suffered from some Spaniards in many pueblos, the persecutions of those Indians who were said to be wizard and the many beatings and capital punishments which s, the various predecessors of Otermin had applied to them. 6. : They arrived on their return at El Paso in Jan“i ; 8 The governor soon fixed * _ : phe whom he had brought from upon locations for New Mexico at this ara , other; and he established the following pueae apg down stream from Nuestra Sefiora de asi . el Paso, with Piro and Tompiro Indian s the iti ne eee a league and a half eastward theref pte aml ee the pueblo of Corpus Christi derom,la a Ba ‘ eagues from El Paso and seven and one-ha lf eee @ Bs ollowing the same Rio del Norte, | , , 4 lew Thanos, and some more Xemez with Piro , the third pueblo, with the advocacy of our Lady of Socorro. In the THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO 275 year 1683, the Indians of this pueblo attempted to take the life of their minister, Father Fr. Antonio Guerra, and of one or two families of Spaniards there; which they did not succeed in doing, because the Zumas, who had settled with them, revealed their plot. The ringleaders fled to New Mexico; and those who remained passed by the governor’s order to another location, much nearer to the pueblo of Isleta, where today is the pueblo which they built a second time with the same name of Socorro. In the said year 1683, on the 24th of October, was founded the first mission of Zumas Indians, eight leagues south of the pueblo of El Paso, in the place which they call today Ojito of Samalayuca. This mission did not survive, for, in the following year of 1684, they rose with the Mansos, also called Gorretas, Christian and heathen, with the Janos and the rest of the Zumas, andi apostatized. ‘7, In December, 1683, there arrived at El Paso, Juan Sabeata, an Indian of the Jumano nation, saying that all of his people wished to be reclaimed to the faith and asked for frayles, and that not very far from their country were the Tejas, of whom he told so many things that it came to be believed that that province was one of the most advanced, fertile, and rich in this America. For which reason the Father Fr. Nicolas Lopez, then the vice-custodio, desiring to spread the gospel, determined to go apostolically, without escort or defense, for this discovery with the Fathers Fray Juan de Zavaleta and Fray Antonio de Acevedo. He informed the governor, Don Domingo Jironza, who would not permit the frayles to go alone, exposed to so many risks. He formed an expedition of volunteer citizens, sending as the commander the Maestre de Campo, Don Juan Domingo de Mendoza, with the proper orders for safeguarding the priests and for the accomplishment of the end for which they tried. They reached the junction of the two rivers, Del Norte and Conchos, and preachwere the three na- tions—the Conchos, Julimes, and Chocolomes. ed to the Indians who These show- ed great gentleness were there, who and the Father Fr. Antonio de Ace- vedo remained there instructing them. The others continued their journey, took to the Pecos river, which they then called the Salado, and after having marched for many days arrived at a rancheria of Indians who were called Hediondos; among these were some Jumanos, and of the latter was Juan Sabeata. From here they took their return to the junction of the two rivers by another direction, more easterly than that by which they came; and before |