lo HOOPKS AND BROOM AIJ. : 



The other authors cited neither reproduce nor translate this 

 inscription. The only reference to it seems to be by Hubert H. 

 Bancroft.* When writing of an expedition of Governor Marti- 

 nez, he says in a foot-note : "On this trip Gov. M. left his name 

 inscribed on Kl Morro, Aug. 26th, with a record that he was on 

 the way to reduce the Moquis with the custodio, P. Camargo, 

 and Juan Garcia de Rivas, alcalde of Sta Fe. Simpson's Jour., 

 io4"5. pl- 65, 67." This statement is evidently condensed from 

 the two contemporaneous inscriptions reproduced on this plate 

 and Plate VII of the present list. None of the authorities acces- 

 sible to the writer mentions Juan Garcia de Rivas or, as Simp- 

 son renders it, Juan Garica de la Revas. The form of the name 

 as given by Bancroft may be due to other sources of information 

 or to a better reading of Simpson's plate itself. 



Without other data by which to fix the name "Juan," the 

 deliberately formed upward stroke and circle would suggest 

 "Julio." 



.PLATE V. 

 Soy cap(itaii) gen(eral) de las pro(vinci)is del Nueho Mex(i)co por el 



rey n (xiest) ro s(eno) r Paso por aqui de buella de los pi:e 

 bios de Znni a los 29 de Julio del ano 1629 y los pnso en paz a su pedim- 



(en) to pi 

 diendole su fabor couio basallos de su uiag(esta)(l y de nuebo dieron la 



obidieucia todo lo qu(e) 

 hiso con el agasaxe selo y prudencia conio tan Cliristiauisinio 



[obliteration] tarn particu 



lar y gallardo soldado de iuacabable y loada nienio(ria) 



I am captain-general of tlie provinces of (the) New Mexico for the 



king our lord. (He) passed by here on return from the 

 towns of Zuiii on the 29 of July of the year 1629 and he put them in peace 



upon their petition, ask- 

 ing him his favor as vassals of his majesty, and anew they gave the 



(their) obedience : all the which 

 he (lid with the clemency, zeal and prudence as (like) such (a) most 



Christian [obliteration] most disting- 



uislied and gallant soldier of unending and praised (exalted) memory. . . 



*The Works of Hubert H. Bancroft, Volume XVII, History of Ari- 

 zona and New Mexico, 1530-1888, vSan Francisco, 1889, page 235. 



