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Show 412 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY persuade the Indians, but was not successful, and finally shot the remaining four captives and withdrew. The friars Juan de Mata and Diego Chavarria were the chaplains of this expedition. In the month of September, De Vargas proceeded against the Indians of the ‘Taos pueblo, attacked them in a canyon not far from the village, and after several fights, in which his command suffered no injury, the Indians submitted and returned to the pueblo. The Tehuas of San Juan and their neighbors of Picuriés, in order to save the crops of that year, attempted to deceive the captain-general, but their plans were made known to De Vargas, and on the 26th of October, after a severe battle, eighty-four of their women and children were captured and given to his soldiers as servants after he had returned to Santa Fé. Upon his return to Santa Fé the captain-general made his report to the viceroy, from which it ap- pears that all of the pueblos had submitted to his authority, with the exception of Acoma and the west, Pojoaque, Cuyamungué, and Santa Clara; there was also some doubt as to the loyalty of Santo Domingo and Cochiti. Before the end of the year the friars of the college of Queretaro left for Mexico. At this time Captain Fernando Duran de Chavez was alealde ‘mayor of San Felipe and the ‘“puesto de Espafioles’’ of Bernalillo; Captain Roque Madrid was lieutenant-general of cavalry and alcalde mayor of ‘‘la villa nueva de los Mexicanos de Santa Cruz (de la Cafiada) :’? Domingo de la Barreda was secretary of government and of war; Captain Alonso Rael de Aguilar, lieutenant-governor and captain-general in place of Luis Granillo. The cabildo of Santa Fé was the alcalde, Lorenzo de Madrid, Francisco Romero de Pedrada, Lazaro de Misquia, Diego Montoya, Jose Garcia Jurado; clerk, Lucero de Godoy. As a result of this war, as we have seen, many pueblos were aban- doned and a great many of the Indians lost their lives, mainly from sickness and exposure. Others left their old villages and joined the Apaches and Navajés, so that during diminution of the native population. constantly increased in numbers. this year The there was a great Spaniards, meanwhile, BIBLIOGRAPHY Archivo de Santa Fé Archivo N. Mexico Bancroft, H. H. Bandelier, A. F. Benavides, Alonzo Davis, W. W. H. Documentos para la Historia de Nuevo Mexico Escalante, Silvestre Veles Gregg, Josiah Mange, Juan M. Otermin, Antonio de Prince, L. Bradford U.S. Land Office Reports Siguenza y Géngora Unbound Mss. at Washington, D. C., in Library of Congress. Archwo General de Mexico, printed in 1856. History of Arizona and New Mezico. Final Report, parts i and ii. Memorial, Madrid, 1630. The Spanish Conquest of New Mezico. Four Series, 20 volumes, Mexico, 1853, 1857. Carta, in Archivo N. Mez. Commerce of the Prairies, New York, 1844. Historia de la Pimeria Alta, in Doc. Hist. 4th series, i, 226. Extractos. Historical Sketches. Printed at Washington in 1856; part of the Archivo de Santa Fé. Mercurio Volante, ete. Mez., is translation of |