The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 145
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Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico in 1680 145
Such efforts on either side, however, were futile, for, as it is defi-
nitely stated, no communication whatever passed between the two
divisions.' The statement of Davis, therefore, that Governor
Otermin "directed that the Spaniards in the south take refuge in
the pueblo of Isleta, under the command of the lieutenant-gov-
ernor, and there fortify themselves," which "summons the settlers
obeyed with alacrity,"2 is purely fictitious. Moreover, with the
very first attack of the Indians in Rio Abajo came the news that
the Governor and all the settlers as far south as Santo Domingo
were dead, and it would have been folly for the practically de-
fenseless inhabitants of the southern jurisdictions to have at-
tempted to assemble at any other place, since Isleta was the only
pueblo north of the Piros nation that remained friendly to the
Spaniards. On the night of the second day, therefore, having
received no reply from his dispatches, and having learned that the
people at Isleta were becoming restless and were beginning to set
out for Mexico because of the current report that the Governor and
the northern refugees were dead,3 Garcia collected his horses, aban-
doned his hacienda, and joined the other citizens of his jurisdic-
tion in Isleta.4
(2) The Decision to Abandon Isleia.-Having failed in his
desperate attempts to ascertain the fate of the Governor and his
division, and having every reason to believe the reports that they
were all dead, it now behooved Garcia to determine on some plans
for the safety of the fifteen hundred Spaniards at Isleta. The con-
dition of these people he found serious in the extreme when he
joined them in that pueblo on the night of August 13. Owing to
the great haste in which the refugees had assembled there the
Y"Auto Para pasar nuestra Resena de armas cavallos y otras cosas," in
Auttos tocantes, 45; Auto of Otermln, in Ibid., 57; "Autto de Junta de
guerra," in Ibid., 68.
'Davis, The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico, 290-291.
$The Rio Abajo people were told by the Indians that they were the
only ones in the province that had escaped the general slaughter, just as
the same story was told to those at Santa F6 (see "Auto Para pasar
nuestra Resena de armas cavallos y otras cosas," in Auttos tocantes, 45),
and it is a peculiar co-incidence that each division learned of the preser-
vation of the other on the same day (August 20), after the former had
already retreated as far as Socorro (see Auto of Garcia, in Autton:
tocantes, 21), and the latter had successfully withstood the siege of Santa
F6. (See Auto of Otermfn, in Auttos tocantes, 33.)
'"Notificasion y Prision," in Auttos tocantes, 15.
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