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sun priest and his aids he gave the power to intercede between those 

 above and men. 



"For a long, long time he lived with them, extending their ter- 

 ritory, building pueblos, and erecting temples to the sun. Finally, 

 after he had made them a powerful and prosperous people, he 

 called them all together and told them that there were many peo- 

 ples that he must teach as he had taught them, and that he must 

 go and instruct them. 'Then,' said he, 'when I am gone you will 

 neglect to do the things that I have taught you. Therefore will 

 my father, the sun, come in his wrath, destroy your pueblos, and 

 give your fields to another race. After that will you return to do 

 the things I have commanded you. Then when you have re- 

 turned from your evil ways will I come on the wings of the morn- 

 ing, in the chariot of the sun, expel the intruder from the land, 

 restore you your ancient possessions, and establish you in all your 

 former glory.' 



"After Montezuma had departed the people did exactly what 

 the great man said they would. They departed from keeping his 

 sayings, quarreled among themselves, and finally became divided. 

 Our division came to this valley ; the other went to Pecos, over 

 the mountains toward the rising sun. In this valley our people 

 builded village after village, only to have an earthquake throw 

 them down or to have them razed to the ground by some of our 

 many enemies. Finally only one village remained. It was situ- 

 ated on the isolated mesa yonder, at the junction of Guadaloupe 

 and San Diego canyons. Against this place the palefaces came 

 with their cannon, and, after a many days' battle, reduced it to the 

 mass of ruins it is this day. Some of our people escaped to the 

 Navajo country, but the greater part of them were captured and 

 reduced to a state of servitude. While thus under Spanish yoke 

 the people built the village and church of San Jiian de los Jemez, 

 at the boiling springs (Perea), and the village and church of San 

 Jose de los Jemez, at Canyon, the ruins of each of which still re- 

 main. Then the Indians rose against this race of intruders (1680) 

 and killed them all at the two villages. But more palefaces came 

 and took possession of the land again. This time they moved us 

 all to the valley where we now live. Since then have we done 

 penance and mortified our bodies to appease the wrath of .the 

 great father. And each morning at the early dawn we send a 

 man to the top of the mesa yonder to see if the great Montezuma 

 is coming with his father on the flaming wings of the morning to 



