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Show 388 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN he found them friendly, baptized a few, obtained some provisions, and returned to his camp in the valley. De Vargas now gave orders to move on to the capital, and, having reached the pueblo of Santo Domingo, which was deserted, on the march he met the governors of Tesuque, San Lazaro, and San IIdefonso. Luis Tu-pa-ti, the leader of all the Indians, was present and appeared much dejected. It was this Indian who had been appointed governor of all the pueblos by De Vargas the year before. Tu-pa-ti explained his dejection to De Vargas and repeated the story which had already come to the commander’s ears that it was his intention upon um his return to execute all the leaders of the rebellion of 1680. De Vargas soon convinced Tu-pa-ti that the interpreter had lied, but took pains to impress upon him that this second attempt to conspire for the destruction of the Spanish army and colonists merited the severest punishment, even to the extermination of every Indian in the kingdom. Tu-pa-tii was now sent to Santa Fé and San Lazaro with instruetions to inform the Indians that De Vargas had brought with him the images of Jesus and the Holy Mother, and a cross, and that he would not break the promise of pardon which he had made the previous year and that the images and cross were much better than the rites of their estufas. He also promised that when he met the interpreter, Pedro de Tapia, he would have him executed because of the deception which he had practiced upon them took with him a few goods of trade with the Indians, for purposes and him. Tu-pa-ti and on the fourth day returned with a good supply of corn, in addition to twelve mule-loads which the Indians as a present. of Santa Fé sent the general, De Vargas left the pueblo of Santo Domingo in a heavy snow storm and in the evening camped at the ranch of Roque Madrid, situated within two leagues of Santa Fé. Here he was visited by 4 deputation of natives from Santa Fé, headed by the governor and the chief of Tesuque, all manifesting PUEBLO HISTORY the greatest friendship and informing him that the report put in circulation by Pedro de Tapia had caused great commotion, but the old men and women would not believe him, saying that De Vargas was their father and would not injure them. Here De Vargas remained in camp until the 16th of December, when, under the original banner carried by Juan de Ofiate, he made REBELLION AND INDEPENDENCE 389 a triumphal entry into the capital of the king- is a translation of the account dom.®*? 891 The following on the 16th day of December, 1693: of the entry by De Vargas ‘*December 16, 1693. ‘‘Entry into this town of Santa Fé, by said governor and captain-general: ‘On the sixteenth day of the month of December, date and year above, I, the said governor and captain-general, about the eleventh hour of said day, made my entry into this town of Santa Fé, and coming in sight of the walled village where the Teguas and Tanos reside, with the squadron on the march and in company with the very illustrious corporation of this town and kingdom, its high sheriff and color-bearing alderman, the captain Don Bernardino Duran de Chaves, carrying the standard referred to in these acts and under which this land was conquered, we arrived at the square where we found the said natives congregated, the women apart from the men, all unarmed and abstaining from any hostile demonstration, but posure, and, on proffering to them instead, times, they answered, ‘Forever’; behaving themselves our greeting, saying with great com- ‘Praise to Him’ several and seeing the approach on foot of the very reverend father custodian, Friar Salvador de San Antonio, and in his train the fifteen monks, priests and reverend father missionaries and the lay brothers of our father, St. Francis, chanting on their march divers psalms, I got down from my horse and my example was followed by the said corporation, corporals and officers of war and by the ensign of the royal standard in company with the said high sheriff and color-bearing alderman, all having gone out with the purpose of receiving the said reverend fathers, who, in union with their very reverend father custodian, came, singing in processional order, and when I made due obeisance as I was passing on my way to the entrance of said village and town, and the same thing was done by my followers, and in the middle of the square a cross had been raised, where all present knelt down and sang psalms and prayers, including the Te Deum and in conclusion the Litany of Our Lady and the said very reverend father custodian, atuning his voice, sang with such joy and fervor that almost every one without exception was duly moved by the happiness of hearing in such place the praises of our Lord God and His Most Holy Mother. And after he sang the hymn three times, I offered my congratulations to said very reverend father and the rest, telling them that notwithstanding the last year, at the time of my happy contest, I had given Possession to the very reverend father president, Friar Francisco Corvera, who Was one of the fathers who came at the time as chaplains to the said army, which said reverend father president had witnessed and accepted and in this manner and in the name of this order and in favor of his sacred religion would do it again and would grant it to him anew with great pleasure, considering the great resignation with which all, together with their very reverend father, do so heartily and freely agree to employ themselves in the administration of the Holy Sacrament in this said newly conquered kingdom; to which the said very reverend father answered, tendering his thanks for himself and all his order, and that by the use of said grant, invested and given by me, the said governor and captain-general, they had enough for the maintenance of their rights — much more than when they entered immediately in the administration of the 7ssions above mentioned; and then I spoke to said corporation and told them I restored to them the possession of their town and that likewise they ought and should give me, the said governor and captain-general, testimonials of having taken the same, entering again therein and of the pacification of the said In“ns and their submission to the Divine and Humane majesty; in the same aoe to the said natives in the plaza of said village, I told and repeated what ur Lord, the King had sent me on the news I gave his Royal Majesty of their |