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Father Juan de Morales ; yet we may judge that the scene there
was of the same character as that at Santa Clara.
Enough has already been said to show that it was the aim of
the Indians to utterly destroy all, and at San Juan and the other
Tewa pueblos there was practically nothing to obstruct the ven-
geance of the natives as it ran its full course. In the whole
nation more than thirty Spaniards were known to have been
killed, while a number of others were carried off and never
heard of again;2 and there as elsewhere the churches were pro-
faned, the houses and haciendas robbed, and many other devasta-
tions committed.
(5) The Escape of the Spaniards at La Caada.-Of the
number of Spaniards living among the Tewa Indians in 1680 no
record is given, nor is there any record of any having escaped ex-
cept those who were able to assemble at La Cafiada. Following
the outbreak of the revolt the alcalde mayor of that jurisdiction,
Luis de Quintana, gathered as many of the settlers as possible at
his house, where they prepared to defend themselves. From there
on August 10 they sent news of the revolt of the Tewa Indians
to Otermin by two messengers from Taos, who halted at La
Cafiada for a short while on their way to the villa, having been
despatched thither by the alcalde mayor of that pueblo with fur-
ther news of the revolt and conspiracy of the Indians." Davis'
says that between the 10th and 13th of August the Indians at-
tacked La Cafiada, massacred the inhabitants, and drove off the
stock, while Bancroft" says that such was probably the case.
Otermin, however, settles this question by stating that all these
people were able to reach the villa on August 13th.6 A few days
after this, the two survivors of Taos, Sebastian de Herrera and
Don Fernando de Chavez passed La Cafiada on their flight to the
south, but they found the whole district entirely depopulated and
in ruins.'
'Ibid.
"Ibid.
8"Dilijencia Y declaraCion," in Auttos tocantes, 4.
'The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico, 291.
5Arizona and New Mexico, 179.
6"Auto (de Otermin)," in Auttos tocantes, 5; Ibid., 32.
7Auttos tocantes, 23.114
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