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Show INVITATION TO GO TO ZUNI. 369 runs whither the sun rises; • it is good, and has water; before midday shall we arrive at the first pueblo, and therein will the beasts fare well, for there is much grass; and setting forth betimes on the next day, in the whole of that and the night following shalt thou come unto the mission. Have no fear of the Apaches Nabajai; for they have come down in peace, begging hatchets, dibbles, and hoes in return for antelope skins. Already are they in great fear; 10 they say. that ( Pur- tyi- tyi'- ya), Paraje ( Tsi- mu- na), Encinal ( Ha- pun- ti'- ka), Pucrtccito ( Wa- pu- tyu- tsi- am'- a), and Canada dc Cruz ( Tsi-a- ma). Cubero and Sevillcta were also formerly summer villages ( the former occupied jointly by Acomas and Lagunas), but they were made penal settlements by the Mexican authorities and ultimately became completely Mexicanized.- F. W. H. *" El camino va par donde sale el sol, etc. So Garcls says, but perhaps misunderstood the Indian, who meant to tell him they would start next morning at sunrise. He certainly did not know where Zufii was, and supposed it to be eastward from Oraibi: see Font's map, whereon Zufii is set down nearly east ( a little north) of Oraibi- above lat 36°, the position of Oraibi-being marked just below that parallel. Zufii is nearly S. E. from Oraibi, a little above lat. 350. " The scholiast notes in the margin that this fear might well proceed from the stroke lately inflicted upon them by the soldiers and settlers of New Mexico, and refers for particulars to* the official reports of Governor Mendinueta. The governor of New Mexico was Senor Don Pedro Firmin ( often called Fernando) Lara y Mendinueta. The archives of New Mexico, which I have examined at Santa Fe, during this period include many autograph signatures of Viceroy Bucatfeli, all spelled |