22 IIOOPKS AND BROOMALL : 



of it. " Quesb " being a succession of letters seldom if ever 

 occurring in Spanish, the apparent " b " with its stroke inside 

 the loop suggests that it may be in fact some other letter or 

 combination of letters. The upright stroke is shorter than 

 that of the other " b's " in this inscription and is quite like 

 the ornamental upright on the " q " of " que " at the begin- 

 ning of the third line. If it is ornamental also in this case, 

 the remainder of the letter is plainly a combined "e" and 

 " o." For the transliteration of " era " in " oyera," compare 

 the form of " en " in the sixth line. " Que se oyera," thus 

 obtained, completes the sense of the remainder of the line 

 according to grammatical requirements and the spirit of the 

 expression. ' ' What is meant by Governor Nieto's carr^-ing the 

 faith (that is, Christianity) is that on this expedition he took 

 along the heroic priests who established the mission of Zuni. ' ' '•• 

 The historians we have cited add nothing to the informa- 

 tion we get about this officer from the inscrii)tions on Plates 

 V and VI. t 



PLATE VII. 



Alio (le 1716 a los 26 (leAg(oslo) paso por aqui D(o)n Feliz Martinez 

 Govern (ad) or y Cap(ita)n Cien(era)l de esle r(ei)no 



a la rednczion y conq (uisla) de Moqiii y en sii co(ni) p(ania) el R(ever- 

 en)(lo Padre F'(ray) Antonio Caniargo cnslodio y jnez eclesiastico 



Year of 1716 on the 26 of Angnsl passed by here Don Feliz Martinez, 



Governor and Captain General of this realm, 

 to the reduction and conquest of Moqni, and in his company the Reverend 



Father F^'riar Antonio Camargo, custodian and ecclesiastical judge. 



Represented by Simpson, plate 65. Imperfectly translated 

 by him on page 123 and fully translated by Lummis, page 179. 



Don Feliz Martinez was governor and captain-general in 

 1 7 15 and 17 16. His official career was unfortunate and ended 

 in his recall to Mexico. The enterprise, recorded in the above 

 inscription so confidently in advance, was a failure. X 



■■•■ Lummis, loc. ciL, page 177. t Bancroft, loc. cit., pages 153, 161, 

 notes. Bandelier, loc. cit., page 331, note. j Davis, page 422; Lum- 

 mis, page 179; Bancroft, pages 233-235; loc. cit. 



