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Show PUEBLO REBELLION AND INDEPENDENCE 395 19th and was then abandoned on account of the weather and the lack of ammunition. In these assaults the Indians lost about thirty. De Vargas now returned to Santa Fé, taking with him a large quantity of maize and one hundred horses and mules which he had recovered from the Indians. The rebels of the pueblo of Cochiti were said now to be intrenched with other Indians upon the mesa of Cieneguilla, and intending to attack the Spaniards at the most favorable opportunity. This in- formation came to De Vargas from the Queres, who besought him to come to their assistance. Accordingly he left Santa Fé on the 12th day of April, with seventy soldiers and twenty armed colonists, and marched against the Potrero Viejo. He took the road to San Felipe where he was reénforced by about one hundred Indians from that village and from the pueblos of Santa Ana and Cia. Leaving San Felipe °° on the day after his arrival, in the afternoon, he reached the Cafiada de Cochiti about midnight. He immediately held a council of war, and the war-captain of the pueblo of Cia, Bartolomé de Ojeda, described the cliff and the three trails leading to the summit, The enemy was prepared for the assault, as fires were burning along the upper edge of the mesa, showing that his position was well picketed. The Spanish camp had not be seen from the Potrero.®® been pitched where it could 898 Autos de Guerra del Afto de 1694, fol. 86. De Vargas reached San Felipe on the 15th of April (fol. 88). Escalante in his Relacion gives incorrect dates ‘‘Y con la otra marché para la Cienegui el de 18 very brief. He says: and Cochiti el dia 14 0 15 de April, 6 incorporandose con los dichos Queres amigos, én dos avances gané la mesa.’’ This is plainly an error as De Vargas gained the mesa at the first assault. 8°4Tbid, fol. 90-91: ‘‘Hize alto por ser entre onze dela noche y hallarse avistado de la dcha messa y por no ser sentido del enemigo qe por sus lumbreras q¢ en ella tiene ser reconose tener puestas sus zentinelas, y asi para aguardar vna barranca y arroyo. : y tremudar cauallo la dcha gente hizo alto orilla de em 17, fol. 91: ‘Al salir de la luna y dos de la mafiana hauydo aguardado con los rl dha ora yo dho Gour y Cappn Genl y hauiendo resuelto y conferido de Ojeda las thos Cauos y el Cappan Suvidas qe la dha Messa de eee Mncheras y de los Queres y mi compadre Barme de la Zieneguilla de Cochiti tenia. Pues los Yndios con sus dha nazion ye pueblo nueso de Cochiti la Tenian Toda am hoyos ge llaman trampas, para no obstante siendo ella y derecha y juntamte toda de penas queria dé la hazia Sumante empifiada de Ojeda tener ynenpugnable se reconozio por el dho del dho Cappan Barme Por vn constado dha messa vna suvida. Siendo la que esta mas fazil respecto i ser la que trajinan con sus vestias y ganados, de ser la mas corryte para por ella darsela al dho enemigo mucho dano, otra Suvida tamuien la tenian estrabiada por podersele cojer las espaldas y la al otro frente para bajar al ates |