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Show 276 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF N EW MEXICO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO they arrived there was a great disco rd between the citizens and the commander, Mendoza, which caused great scandal to the assembled heathen and much mortification to the priests. As soon as he arrived the Indians of the junction asked Fr. Lopez for six priests to instruct them and to administer the holy sacraments. He left with them the Fathers Zavaleta and Acevedo and proceeded with the rest of the company, returning by Tabal opa and Encinillas to El Paso. After a little while there arrived at the junction of the rivers some Julime Indians, very resentful against the Spaniards because they had seen two others of their tribe hanged at Parral. As they saw all the catechumens of the junction these latter rose, flogged the two said priests, drove them out naked, on foot, without food, slew who were in company with the he ornaments a ce ae YS, arrived at the a a - a as I have of Or Paes ose e pueblo of Our and sacred vessels great toil and after pueblos of El Paso. above indicated, the Lady of Guadalupe of the same nation, co the captain Chiquit ae that time a very good friend :Pai and the Janos rose and by of the Splbiods "The means of the heathen - ee took the life of their minister, Fathe r Fray Manuel arene destroyed the temple and profaned the ornaments mate vessels. This mission was called Our Lady of a e of Janos, All of these conti nued in their rebel10n for two years, ay te, st ; until, unable to withstand ca the continu- Domingo Jironza waged against 1 for pape in the vent 1686" rede ne a ee ‘*8. The rebellious pueblos of New Sr Inone against the other and began oe soe “The ueres, ht against the Tehuas and and The latt until the year 1688, in wa . his stead they selected Don the Tehuas and Tanos ; he soon after died u was chosen for a second and tim e. Alonso Catiti, iti, chiechi f of Sao died earlier; as he api 1e urst asunder suddenly entered an estufa for sacri, all of his intestines coming 11 view of many other Indians. Thereafter each pu- 277 eblo of the Queres governed itself independently. The Apaches were at peace with some of these pueblos, and in others inflicted all the damage they could. The Yutas,_ when they heard of the misfortune of the Spaniards (T680) waged unceasing war upon the Jemez, Taos, and Picuriés; and even with greater vigor upon the Tehuas, among whom they made formidable incursions. Not alone with this and with their civil wars were all the apostates afflicted but also by famine and pestilence. The Queres and Jemez finished off the Piros and Tihuas who remained after the invasion by Otermin because they considered them friendly to the | Spaniards. Of the Tihuas there only escaped some families which retired to the province of Aloqui (Moqut) ; of the Piros none whatever. | ‘9. The year of 1688, Don Pedro Reneros Posada invaded New Mexico, reached the pueblo of Zia, captured some horses and some sheep and returned to El Paso, having accomplished nothing else. In September of the year following, 1689, Don Domingo Jironza made an entrada for the reduction of the rebels. He had a bloody battle in the said pueblo of Cia, in which the rebels defended themselves with such valor and desperate courage that many let themselves burn alive on the tops of their houses rather than surrender. The number of Queres, as | well those of this pueblo as those from Santa Ana and | others who came to the aid of the besieged, who were left | dead in this battle, was six hundred, of both sexes and of | different ages. Only four old men were taken alive. They | were shot in the plaza of the pueblo. It is not proven that in this expedition anything else was accomplished. In the year 1690, Don Domingo Jironza had already formed another expedition for a second invasion of New Mexico, but the Zumas, Christians and Gentiles, who lived in El Paso and vicinity, rose and he was compelled to direct his expedition against them. ‘10. In the beginning of the year 1691, Don Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de Leon entered upon the government. Having pacified the Zumas he thought of reducing the rebels of New Mexico. He consulted with the Most Excellent Sefior Viceroy, the Cénde de Galvez, and his excellency agreed, giving to him fifty soldiers from the garrison at Parral. Before these had arrived at El Paso, De Vargas set forth for New Mexico with those menat-arms he could gather and with three of our priests, who were the Fathers Fray Francisco Corvera, Fray Miguel Mafios, and Fray Cristobal Alonzo Barroso. In Santa Fe /*~ | | | |
