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Show NOTES ON THE MOQUI PUEBLOS. 395 cabe [ sic]; and this pueblo of Muca which the Zunis name Oraybe, and it was in this that I was. The Yutas, enemies of the last two pueblos, live on the one and the other side of the Rio Colorado in the very confluences ( juntas) of the two rivers that compose it. name Aguatuyba appears. It is difficult to identify all of these names. Naybe is evidently a misprint of Oraybe or Oraibi, Xumupami of Shumopovi, while the chiefs name, Aguatuyba, was apparently intended for the important town of Awatobi. We are left to surmise ( assuming the Hopi villages of 1583 and of 1598 to have been the same) the proper pairing of the unidentified names given by Onate and Espejo respectively; and it cannot be satisfactorily done. The first active missionary work among the Hopi Indians was begun about 1629, when Francisco Porras, with Andres Gutierrez and Cristobal de la Concepcion arrived at Awatobi, which was named San Bernardino in honor of the day. Porras was poisoned by the natives June 28,1633, but the fate of his companions and the missions to which they were assigned is not known. In 1650 Jose de Espeleta became missionary at San Francisco ( or San Miguel) de Oraibi, the westernmost of the Hopi pueblos; in 1674 Jose Trujillo assumed charge of San Bartolome de Shumopovi ( with the visita of Mashongnovi), and in the same year Jose de Figueroa and Agustin de Santa Maria went to Tusayan and became established at the missions of San Bernardino de Awatobi and Walpi respectively ( the latter being reported as a visita or sub- mission of Oraibi). Thus, at the time of the great Pueblo revolt against Spanish authority in 1680, Tusayan contained four missionary priests in charge of five villages, all of whom were slain by the Indians on August 10 of the year named. All the pueblos, including those of the Hopi, enjoyed immunity from Spanish interference until 1692, when Diego de |