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Show 366 FRIENDLY YOUNG ZUNIAN. tized, and do not believe that thou art a padre; but I myself believe it, for I have been baptized at Zuni; all the people of my pueblo are good, and content with the padre whom we have; we know that those who are baptized go to heaven. Our padre was also here not long ago ( poco hd), and when he returned to us he said that these were evil people, unwilling to be baptized, and that with us only was he content. The padre whom we have came but lately ( poco haze) from Mexico, and the old one went to the Villa. 7 Also is History of the Chichimecas also forms vols. 13 and 14 of Ter-naux- Compans' works, Paris, 1837- 41. The fact is, as Winship says in his admirable edition of Castaneda, " the term was applied to all wild tribes " ( 14th Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. EthnoL, p. 524). Chichimeca was never a nation, an empire, or a country; but the Moqui were chichimecos, because they wouldn't be baptized. ( Compare note \ p. 52.) 7 Santa Fe, N. M. " The old one," whom the friendly Zunian means, was Padre Fray Silvestre Velez de Escalante, resident missionary at Zufii. Escalante is famous for his expedition in Colorado and Utah, but less is known of his visits to the Moquis and attempts to subdue their obduracy. Garces came to Moqui between two of Escalante's entradas there; and very likely their fresh, impressions of Escalante were a factor in their inhospitality to Garces. Garces, beyond, alludes to a letter or report of Escalante on the subject of the Moquis, etc., dated Aug. 15, 1775. The best known such report is dated Oct. 28, 1775, being Informe y Diario de la Entrada que en Junio de 1775 hizo en la Provincia de Moqui Escalante spent eight days there in that June, 1775, and tried in vain to go beyond to the Rio Grande de los Cosninas- the Grand Canon of the Colorado, |