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Show THE CIPHER DECIPHERED. 377 at me; and that I should esteem it a favor if he would send copies of this letter to the senor gover-on A SE p~ A 23 D M D 1632 A0* AlA Beng « * D M t o D l p 6 Letrado LvjAn This stands for " Se pasaron a 23 de Marzo de 1632 anos a la benganza de Muerte del padre Letrado. Lujan"; or, in English-" They passed on March 23, 1632, to the avenging of the death of Father Letrado. Lujan." The then governor of New Mexico was Francisco de la Mora Ceballos, who sent this expedition to avenge the murder, under Maestro de Campo Tomas de Albizu, and the inscriber, Lujan, was a soldier on this expedition. Father Letrado had come to New Mexico in 1628 ( Lummis, after Vetancurt) or 1629 ( Bandelier), and been first a missionary to the Jumanos; on the founding of the mission at Zuni in 1629 he was sent there, only to be killed on February 22, 1630 or 1632, as already said. We find the facts in Vetancurt, Cronica de la Provincia, etc., iii, pp. 320, 321, where we read. " Estos [ the people of the Zuni pueblo of Aguico = Hawiku, one of the Seven Cities of Cibola] se rebelaron el aiio de [ i6-] 32 y mataron al venerable padre fray Francisco Letrado, cuya vida esta en el Menologio a 22 de Febrero, y quemaron la iglesia." . . And on turning to Vctancurt's Menologio Franciscano, pp. 52, 53, we find further as follows, kindly transcribed for us by Mr. Hodge: El venerable padre fray Francisco Letrado, natural de Talavera de la Reina, hijo de la Santa Provincia de Castilla, paso con deseo de convertir almas para Dios a la Provincia del Santo Evangelio; y viendo que estaban convertidos, decia que su intento principal era buscar que convertir, y asi paso al Nuevo- Mexico el ano de 1628 con los treinta religiosos que |