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Show PUEBLO REBELLION AND INDEPENDENCE 401 discovered that the people were in the mountains near-by and endeavored to negotiate with them, using Juan Gé, the Pecos governor, as intermediary, but he was not successful, and as a punishment for their conduct he sacked the pueblo and carried off a large amount of corn.*?? The captain-general determined to return to Santa Fé by a roundabout way; he marched across the Rio Grande, northward thence into south the country to the Ojo of the Caliente,** Utes, Rio 402 Bandelier, A. F., Final Report, part ii, p. 31: ‘‘Taos, built on both sides of the swift and cool Rio de Taos, is the only village of New Mexico, ancient or modern, so far discovered, the situation of which corresponds with Castafeda’s description and location. He says, ‘ Valladolid is the last one in ascending towards the northeast.’ ‘‘Although the present buildings of Taos are not those of the Braba of the 16th century, they still preserve the appearance of the old village, and their position relative to the river and the valley is the same. IEIOGI UEae a* I Aaure is oy : i Wg Z i ie e | a i. Ay ; ‘ * : ; 4 ‘ ae ; ina) ia 4 | : ‘ i 5 i a half of each other. One of them Honed as ‘one or two, seldom three, extensive buildings composing the village. j , a mile and stands on the first low terrace above the creck on the east bank, and is called in the language of the Tehuas Ho-ui-ri. . . . the houses were unusually long; that is, they formed unusually large hollow rectangles. The three pueblos, ouiri Ho-mayo, opposite on the west bank, on a high promontory that rises at least one hundred feet over the stream, and Pose-uingge, the one immediately above the baths, are to a certain degree specimens of a kind which I have men- acl § Ojo Caliente stream, within veh Taos is, therefore, together with Acoma and some of the Moqui villages, one of the best preserved examples of antiquity so far as architecture is concerned.’’ 408 There is no indication that the pueblos near Ojo Caliente were inhabited at the time of the first coming of the Spaniards or since. It is not unlikely that when De Vargas, in 1694, passed by Ojo Caliente, he noticed the ruins, but mistook them for those of the former Spanish settlement at Chamita — San Gabriel. See Relacion Sumaria de las Operaciones militares del Aito de 1694. Also Escalante Ms., Relacion del Nuevo Mexico. The ruins at Ojo Caliente are claimed by the Tehua Indians to be those of their ancestors who lived there long before the coming of the Spaniard. Bandelier, A. F., Final Report, part ii, p. 37 et seq., says: ‘‘Three of the largest pueblos of New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona lie on the banks of the is2 ‘ .-? a4 7 | t These structures are so disposed as in most cases to surround an interior court. Considerable interest attaches to the ruined sites at Ojo Caliente because the myth of Pose-yemo or Pose-ueve refers to one of them as the birth-place of that personage and the scene of his main achievements. Pose-ueve, which is the proper name in Tehua folk-lore, is the person around whom the Montezuma legend has gathered, or rather he has been taken as the figure-head for that modern fabrication. — or Pose-ueve— he who walketh or — Moisture from Heaven ‘Pose-yemo pueth along strewing moisture in the morning — was the son of a girl of fell panes’ The story about his mother conceiving from a pinion oe ae a Into her lap, may possibly be a genuine Indian legend. At all on ne ss ‘mained, like the hero of the Zuii folk-tale about the ‘Poor boy of Pin-a-ua, & Wretched pauper © be chosen. for a long time, Pose-ueve cepted, to the discomfiture of the poor boy. was until the day came when proposed of those who in jest to had intended the a new cacique had medicine-men, and ac- to make a laughing-stock At once he began to astonish all with prodigies, for which an |