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Show LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY ; a ae comprising the cet He traveled north and east, exploring the areas now * of Apaches under Captain Carlana, against the Utes and Comanches. . *,.% ” i it as 4 accompanying cs Pino F Juan Braet, the Fr. 4 of September, chaplain. The Apaches who accompanied this expedition joined it at the Nepesta or Arkansas river.**! On this stream Valverde became advised of a battle between the Apaches and the French, the latter being aided by the Pawnees ‘*? and the Jumanos.‘* About this time the viceroy sent an order to Governor Valverde commanding him to establish a presidio of twenty-five men at Cuar- +: on the 15th ts states of Colorado and Kansas, and going farther north, as he believed, than Coronado,**® in 1541. This expedition left Santa Fé * 432 telejo, some 130 leagues from Santa Fé,*#+ a council of war, however, decided that this was impossible of execution as twenty-five men was entirely too small a force for the purpose. In 1718 complaint 440 Valverde y Cosio (Antonio), Diario y Derrotero, 1719, Ms., in the Pinart Col. and cited by Mr. Bancroft, in note on page 236, History of Arizona and New Mexico. This diary states that the officers and men suffered terribly from poison-oak; that the best remedy found was the chewing of chocolate and the application of the saliva to the affected parts. #41 These were the Apaches of Cuartelejo, Jicarillas, residing in the 17th and 18th centuries in the valley of Beaver creek, Scott county, Kansas. The district was called Quartelejo by Capt. Juan Uribarri, who on taking possession of it in 1706, named it the province of San Luis, giving the name Santo Domingo to the Indian rancheria. | 442 Tt is said that the French had given these Indians firearms. They were Pawnees, and the Spanish knew them as Pananas. ' Escalante, Carta, p. 125, says that in the year 1719 a company under Captain Villasur was sent to find these Indians, 300 leagues northeast of Santa Fé. He reached the river on which their towns stood, but the Pananas attacked him in the night-time with guns, killing Villasur, Fr. Juan Mingues, and almost all of the & cy ak ry i « 4" : + =F ot iti ere? Fi hig: oes te ee: ~ * arie . 4 oor .* so 2 A Fine and captain, Miguel Tenorio de Alba at San Geronimo de Taos. ‘mt Uae Pie. + te ; Hi re ek ®-- rece . ‘gia Lei stses. i. aes orPe ii? re Certain it 18 et The news was brought by an Apache from the plains. that in 1702 the Governor Pedro Rodriguez Cubero made an expedition to the Jumanos. See Libro de Difuntos de Pecos (Ms.), 1695 to 1706. In case this aggression be true, it must have come from Texas or Louisiana. In 1720, the Spaniards made a reconnoissance with fifty men as far as the Arkansas, but they were surprised by the French and some Pawnees all perished. In 1748 it is officially stated that the French traded withandthenearly Comanches at the place called Quartelejo, north or northeast of Mora. ’’ an 1 Arch. Sta. Fé, Ms. At this time captain, Villasur lieutenant-general. "he alealdes mayores were Alf. Cristobal Torres at La was Cafiada; captain, Luis Garcia at Alburquerque, Bernalillo, Santa Ana, Cia, and Jemez; captain, Alonzo Garcia, Isleta; captain, Antonio Uribarri, at Laguna, Acoma, Halona, and the entire region of the Zufiis; captain, Alfonso Rael de Aguilar, at Pecos and Galisteo, eee (p. 180). ; Southwest, Final Report, part 1, part of the French towards New taken place in 1700. The French Jumanos. This, however, is not la Reconquista del Nuevo Mexico ararte oti * 4 command, including the French guide. 443 Bandelier, A. F., Investigations in the note, p. 212: ‘The earliest advance on the Mexico, so far as known, is reported as having were said to have destroyed a village of the certain, I find it in the Relacion Anonima de |
