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the pass, the dispersion of the people at La, Salineta was checked
and the review was continued without further recorded inter-
ruption.
The total number of persons who passed this muster, including
soldiers, servants, women, children, and Indian allies, was, accord-
ing to the sworn statement of Otermin, 1946. During the retreat
to La Salineta, Otermin, Garcia, and others frequently stated that
there were 2500 refugees in the two divisions. Of these it was
estimated that there were 1500 in Garcia's division and 1000 in
Otermin's.1 Taking these estimates as being approximately cor-
rect, it is seen that at least several hundred of the refugees
crossed into Nueva Vizcaya without having been listed at La
Salineta. Of the total number of the 1946, only 155 were
men capable of bearing arms. The number of horses was 471,
though, as the muster rolls showed, these were for the most
part so poor and weak that they were unfit for military service.
There was only one horse for every fourth person, even if we
assume that none of the horses were used to transport the few
provisions and other things which the refugees brought with
them. The supplies are not listed, but the statement is made
that the people were provided with meat, corn, and munitions.
For this reason, notwithstanding the fact that a number of the
guns were broken and practically useless, and although a great
many of the men were entirely destitute of both weapons and
horses, Otermin recorded his belief that his force was sufficiently
strong to settle at that place, or some more convenient one near by,
with a fair degree of safety.2
The Indian allies who passed in review before the governor were
inhabitants of the four Piros pueblos of Senecf, Socorro, Alamillo,
and Sevilleta, and numbered 317 persons in all." These Indians,
many of whom had already abandoned their pueblos before
the revolt because of the ravages of their Apache neighbors,4 had
1"Autto (de Otermfn) : Salieron el dia 22," in Auttos tocantes, 8; "Carta
(de Otermfn a Parraga)," in Ibid., 31; "Pareser del Cavdo (de Santa
6) ," in Ibid., 37.
2"Autto de Junta de guerra," in Auttos tocantes, 61.
'Muster rolls, in Auttos tocantes, 60.
4Letter of the Cabildo of Santa F6 to the viceroy, October 16, 1680, in
Auttos tocantes, 98.268
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