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Show FIRST ZUNI MISSION NOTED. 375 had arrived at the pueblo of Moqui, having passed through the other intermediate nations, who had reentries appear, signed by him, from the 7th of January to the 5th of March, 1776. We give here one of his autographs, in facsimile. Then on the 3d of May, 1776, appears for the first time the name of his successor, or locum tenens, Fray Mariano Rosate. He was followed by Andres Garcia, 1779- 80; and he, by Manuel Vega and Rafael Benavides, 1788. Dan. Martinez was at £ 1 Paso and Zuni before 1792. The first mission among the Zunis was established by Fray Francisco Letrado ( erroneously called " Detrado" by Ladd, Story of New Mexico, p. 116, 1891), evidently in 1629. At this date Letrado came to New Mexico with Fray Estevan de Perea and 29 other missionaries, being first assigned to the Jumanos east of the Rio Grande, then to the Zunis, doubtless in the same year; for before 1630 there were two churches among the Zunis, one at Hawiku ( near the present farming village of Ojo Ca-liente), the other probably at Halona on the site of and across the river ( Rio Zufii) from the present Zuni pueblo. Letrado applied for permission to establish himself among the Zipias or Cipias, a tribe now known only by name, but said to be still traditionally familiar to the Zufiis as Tsipia- Kwe. His application was denied and Fray Martin de Arvide was sent in his stead, via Zuni. On Sunday. Feb. 22, 1630 or 1632 ( according to varying authorities), Letrado was murdered by the Zunis while they were being urged to attend mass, and five days later ( Feb. 27) Arvide met a similar fate, probably at the hands of the Zufiis who followed him on his way to the mysterious Zipias. For the establishment of the first Moqui missions see note f, p. 395. One of the oldest and most interesting of the cryptograms now or lately legible on the famous Inscription Rock or El Morro of New Mexico, 35 miles east of Zuni, is that which records the fact of Padre Letrado's death. Quite a bit of modern history attaches to this inscription. In a report of |