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Show 262 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY death. As a consequence they did everything possible to secure the services of a company of soldiers to march to their relief. One el religioso lego quedaba, se lo llevo consigno al pueblo que se llama Santiago, legua y media el rio arriba.’’ On the other hand Espejo, who followed the tracks of the murdered missionaries less than one year after their death, says of the Tigua pueblos, ‘‘one of which is called Puala, where we found that the Indians of this province had killed Fray Francisco Lopez and Fray Agustin Ruiz.’’ Villagré, who was at Puara eighteen years after the death of the friars, says that at least two of them were killed there. — Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610, canto xv, fol. 137. Castafio de Sosa also visited this part of the country in 1591, for in Memoria del Descubrimiento, p. 256, we find: ‘‘Y por lo que alli habia y en toda la tierra nos habian dado, que eran estos pueblos los que habian muerto los padres que 4 nos dieron, habian andado por aqui.’’ Juan de Ofiate was at Puara on June 27, 1598. He stayed all night at the pueblo. In one of the larger rooms, in which priests who came with Oftate were quartered, they discovered a painting on the walls partially effaced representing the killing of the missionaries in 1580. Ofate gave strict orders , oa . et. ia, ie tii least, - _ “ es ee. not to show any resentment at the sight, but to act as if the painting had not been noticed. Captain Villagra also tells the story of the discovery of this painting on the walls of the room at Puara. In these words this poet historian sings: ‘“Y haziendo jornada en vn buen pueblo, Que Puarai llamauan sus vezinos, En el 4 todos bien nos recibieron, Y en vnos corredores jaluegados, Con vn blanco jaluegue recien puesto, Barridos y reados con limpeca, Lleuaron 4 los padres, y alli justos, ueron muy bien seruidos, y otro dia, Por auerse el jaluegue ya sacado, Dios que 4 su santa Iglesia siepre muestra Los Santos que ella padezieron, Hizo se trasluziesse la pintura, Mudo Predicador, aqui encubrieron Con el blanco barniz, porque no viessen La fuerza del martirio que passaron, Aquellos Santos Padres Religosos, Fray Agustin, Fray Juan, y Fray Francisco. Quios cuerpos ilustres retratados, Los Baruaros tenian tan al viuo, Que porque vuestra gente no los viese Quisieronlos borrar con aquel blanco, Quia pureza grande luego quiso Nostrar con euidencia manifiesta, Que 4 furo azote, palo, a piedra fueron, Los tres Santos varones consumidos.?? From the time of Ofiate down to the Pueblo rebellion of 1680 there is little known of Puara. The Indians of this locality took part in the rebellion. When It became known to Otermin that his efforts to negotiate with the Indians at Cochiti had failed owing to their duplicity, he ordered the three villages of Puaray, Sandia, and Alameda burned, and they were so destroyed. Puaray was never reoccupied. It became the property of Captain Juan de Ulibarri, and later THE SPANISH FRIARS 263 friar, Benardino Beltran, was particularly active in his efforts to secure the accomplishment of this design on their part. At this time there was a cavalier at the mines of Santa Barbara named Antonio de Espejo, a native of Cordova, and a man of wealth, courage, and industry. He offered his services to the Franciscans for the purpose of the rescue of their brethren, declaring he was willing to risk his life and fortune in the enterprise, provided he should be authorized by some person in authority to undertake it. The offer was accepted, and the governor, or chief alcalde of Cuatro Cienegas, took it upon himself to issue the license and commission. Espejo was authorized to take with him as many soldiers as might be willing to follow his fortunes, or would be required to carry out the objects of the expedition. of Captain Juan Gonzales. This was known Real al Capitan Juan Gonzales, 1711, Ms. as the Gonzales land grant.—V enta There were discovered near where the school and church of the Christian Brothers are located near Bernalillo the remains of a pueblo that had been destroyed by fire; metates were found ; also skeletons and jars filled with corn meal. |