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Show ESCALANTE HEARD FROM. 367 there a padre in Acome, and one in Laguna. 8 Thou from which Garces has just come to Moqui. His report of 1775 speaks of the seven Moqui pueblos on three different mesas, with 7,494 total population, two- thirds of them at Oraibi alone. We thus learn that Oraibi then outnumbered all the other Moqui pueblos together. Escalante advised heroic, not to say drastic, measures to be taken with this stiff- necked generation of gentiles, whom he wished to be subjugated and converted by force of arms; a presidio to be established there, as well as a mission, etc. After this Escalante went to Santa Fe, full of his ideas of a northern route from that capital to Monterey, in undertaking to carry out which he failed, but made his well- known tour just mentioned. He and Padre Francisco Atanasio Dominguez, with a party of eight men, started from Santa Fe July 29, 1776; his second visit to Moqui was on his return, Nov. 16- 20, 1776; and he was back in Santa Fe Jan. 2, 1777. So we see Garces* experiences at Moqui sandwiched between those of Escalante, who, at present date of July 2, 1776, had gone to Santa Fe, as the Zunian told Garc£ s, to make ready for his long tour. • Who were the padres at Acoma and Laguna respectively in July, 1776, I have not been able to discover. In my search for them the nearest I can come is: At Acoma, Pedro Ignacio Pino, 1760, and Tomas Salvador Fernandez, 1782. At Laguna, Juan Jose Oronzo ( or Orontaro), 1760; Jose Palacios, 1782; Jose Corral, 1788. Acoma is a pueblo tribe of western central New Mexico, fifteen miles south of the Santa Fe Pacific ( Atlantic and Pacific) Railroad. First known to Marcos de Niza in 1539 under the name Acus. Their own name is Acome, signifying " people of the white rock.". It was first visited by Coronado's army in 1540 and described, under the name Acuco, as situated on an almost impregnable pefiol, just as it exists now. It has the distinction of being the only New Mexican pueblo that has not changed its site since the middle of the sixteenth century. The |