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and well informed in Indian matters.1 The writer stated that
the day before (September 15) he had received news of the revolt
of the Indians, of the governor's wound, and of Ayeta having sent
eighty musketeers (seventy-eight is the correct number) and sup-
plies for their aid. After consoling Otermin for the loss of his
province he suggested that it would be well to form a plaza de
arenas at El Paso and then send Father Ayeta to Mexico to repre-
sent the whole situation to the viceroy. In his opinion at least three
hundred men, fully armed and able to fortify themselves in the
villa of Santa F6, should be sent to reconquer the province. By
this means the Indians could be reduced and kept in subjection.
The matter as he saw it was a serious one, for the province of
Nueva Vizcaya was very liable to experience a similar misfortune
should the New Mexican rebels be unpunished and the province
abandoned, since the Jancs, Yumas, and other natives of Nueva
Vizcaya, seeing the success of their neighbors, would also revolt,
and in this way make the ruin in the northern provinces of New
Spain complete.2
It is thus seen that Agramontes viewed the revolt and apostasy
of the New Mexican Indians with great misgivings for the secur-
ity of the northern frontiers, and likewise that he recognized the
necessity of maintaining the refugees in some fortified and con-
tiguous place until the province should be reconquered. The same
conclusions had been reached even earlier than this and independ-
ently by Father Ayeta, than whom there was doubtless no man
better qualified to speak with judgment concerning the affairs in
northern New Spain. On August 31, when Ayeta was under the
impression that only the Rio Abajo refugees had escaped from
New Mexico, he had notified the viceroy that he had had Pedro de
Leiva elected provisional governor in Otermin's place, whom he
supposed to be dead, in order that the refugees might be made to
halt at El Paso when they should arrive there. For, as he
stated, not to do so would mean that Parral would be lost. More-
over, he pointed out that El Paso was a suitable place for estab-
lishing a base of operations for the purpose of subduing the
natives, possessing suitable sites for a large settlement, and an
'Auto of Otermln, in Auttos tocantes, 80.
'Letter of Agramontes to Otermin, in Auttos tocantes, 81.272
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