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Show 320 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY he went south to the pueblo of Santo Domingo, where he met the main army under the command of Salvidar, whom he had sent south for the purpose of bringing them to San Gabriel. In the first week of August Ofiate explored the country in the neighborhood of the great pueblo of Cia, which he calls Tria; also the Jemez, and in his explorations he discovered the famous sulphur springs of that locality. Returning from the mountain country of the Jemez, he came to San Gabriel by way of Santo Domingo, San Ildefonso, and San Juan, arriving at his seat of operations on the 10th. On the 11th of August Ofiate began the work of construction of the irrigation and supply ditches for the settlement of San Gabriel, and in this work he employed over one thousand five hundred of the natives. While this work was in progress, on the 18th, the last of the colonists and wagons arrived from the south, coming by way of the pueblo of San Marcos.*2° soldiers and colonists became Aguilar. It was at this time that some of the mutinous, apparently led by Captain Over forty-five men were concerned in the plot. The and as he was led by Indian guides, living in the locality, it is but fair to presume that he passed by the present site of the capital of New Mexico and that there were no inhabited pueblos at the place at 326 The Queres name of this pueblo was that time. : Ya-tze, but the Tanos ealled it Kua-kaa, the same name as the one on the Arroyo Hondo, near Santa Fé. In 1680, at the time of the Pueblo revolt, it had six hundred inhabitants, according to Vetancurt, Cronica, p. 324: ‘Tenia Sesicientos cristianos, de nacion Queres.’’ Escalante, however (Carta, par. 3), writes as follows: Sitiaron 4 esta los Tanos de ‘‘Dia 15 San Marcos, San Cristobal y Galisteo, los Queres de la Cienega, y los Pecos por la parte del sur,’’ Mr. Bandelier Says that ‘‘it may be that there wer e both Queres and Tanos in this pueblo, but considers the vi lage to have been Tanos, just as to-day Santo Domingo is counted among the Q ueres, although there are many Tanos among them, and Isleta among the Tigu as, although a good portion are Queres from Laguna.’’ The name San Marcos wa 8 given to it in 1591 by It was abandoned by its inhab s during the siege 1680.— Diario de la Retirada itant de Otermin, fol. 28. Vargas passed through it, it was in ruins, with only Stand Gaspar Castaiio de Sosa. of Santa Fé, in Augus In 1692, when Diego t,de a few of the walls still ing and a smal] portic yn of the church edifice. In Autos de Guerra Segunda Entrada, fol. 138, we find: ‘“Y¥ halle despoblado y se conservande al-la Sun0s aposentos y pare des de los qu arteles y viuyendas de el y asi mismo se hallan las paredes y cafio n de la Yeles ia buenas con lag de el conuto.’’ If there had been any inhabited pueblos or clusters of houses even in the immediate Vicinity of would have mentione the present site of Santa Fé, some one of the explorers d the fact; we are entitled to this conclusio they mention every n because ot her settlement within a radius of twenty-five miles of the place. Indian Chief — Pueblo of San Juan |
