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Show 212. LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY above the rest like towers. There were embrazures and loop-holes in them for defending the roofs of the different stories, because of there being no streets. As is stated by Castafieda, ‘‘the flat roofs are all of a height and are used in common. The roofs have to be reached first, and these upper houses are the means of defending them.’’ The army continued its march from Matsaki, having been delayed ten days on account of a continuous fall of snow. The country round about was covered with junipers and stunted pines which the soldiers used for firewood. The snow was a very dry fall, covering the baggage two and three feet deep, but not injuring it. Castaneda says that ‘‘it fell all night long, covering the baggage and the soldiers and their beds, piling up in the air, so that if anyone had suddenly come upon the army nothing would have been seen but mountains of snow.’’ The horses were half buried in it,; but tL it served to keep those who were underneath quite warm. The army passed by the great rock of Acoma, to the top of which some of them climbed with great difficulty, although the natives could g0 up and down quite easily, carrying loads, and the women carrying water. The soldiers marveled at these feats in climbing because, in making the ascent themselves, they were compelled to pass their weapons up from one another, while the natives would not touch the rocky sides of the precipice even with their hands. Finally the army reached Tiguex and occupied the quarters that had been prepared for them at such a tremendous sacrifice of honor and fair dealing. The winter was so severe that nothing was accomplished until late in February, 1541, at which time Coronado Sent messengers to every pueblo asking that the natives make peace. He met with only poor success for, pointing to the slaughter of their friends who had surrendered, they answered that they had no faith in the word of the Christians. Thus almost the entire winter was passed in vain Status. endeavor to restore conditions to their former The captain-general despatch ed Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, ex to propose terms of peac e. Although tile, they talked with him and said that if m he must dismount and they would come and confer with him; they also required that his cava lry be sent Courtesy Bureaw American Water Vessels, Ethology Tinajas— from Pueblo of Tesuque |