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Show SPANISH RULE, 1700 TO 1822 429 that a grand junta of all the towns had decided on peace and Christianity. This chief was sent back with gifts, and in July eight Moquis came to announce that after harvest the formal arrangements for submission would be completed. Thus all went well so long as the Moquis were the ambassadors; but when the governor sent messengers of his own choosing, the truth came out that the pretended ambassadors were traders, who had invented; all their reports to account for their visits and insure their own safety, the Moqui nation being as hostile as ever.*?® Captain Félix Martinez, by appointment of the viceroy, assumed the office as acting governor, or possibly governor ad interim, on the 30th day of October, 1715. He immediately began suits at law UAPTAIN FELIX MARTINEZ IS GOVERNOR NAMED INTERIM AD against his predecessor and kept him Capin jail for two or three years. tain Martinez was a soldier under De Vargas, and became a captain during the governorship of the Marquis de la Penuela. He was a man of very quarrelsome disposition and was forced to resign in 1712, but three years later he received a new appointment from the king as captain for life and regidor perpetuo of the villa. During his rule of two years two campaigns are recorded, one against the The gover- Comanches. Moquis and the other against the Utes and nor led the army in person against the Moquis, having a force of sixty-eight men, together with the custodio, Fr. Camargo, the cabildo of Santa Fé, and a force of settlers from the towns of Alburand querque Santa Cruz. Before the first battle began, commis- sioners were sent forward from Zufii who found a portion of the Moqui towns willing to give in their submission, but the people of Walpi and those of the Tanos pueblo refused. Two battles occurred in the month of September, the Indians being defeated, but the army satisfied itself with destroying some of the corn-fields and then Tetreated to Santa Fé. Governor Martinez On this expedition vis- ited ‘‘E] Morro,’’ Inscription Rock, as appears from the record cut in the stone, as follows: ‘‘In the year 1716, upon the 26th day of August, passed by this place Don Félix Martinez, governor and captain-general of this kingdom, for the purpose of reducing and uniting Moqui.’? On another part of the rock are the inscriptions i es *86 Bancroft, H. H., History of Arizona : and New T ’ Memico, j on), p. =09. 933 |
