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The inscription on Plate IV is of the same date, and pre- 

 sumably refers to the same expedition. 



PLATE VIII. 

 Agnstyn lie Vnojos Jitan (io (11) sales a(no) 1629 



Anguslin de Inojos Juan Gonsales, year 1629 



Aiigustin de Inojos, according to another inscription on the 

 rock, given by Liimmis, loc. cit., page 172, was alferez 

 (ensign) and " passed by here " with Captain Juan de Are- 

 chuleta and Lieutenant Diego Martin Barba in 1636. The 

 expedition was sent by Governor Francisco Martinez de Baeza 

 " to arrange the troubles in Zuni." * 



Of Juan Gonsales nothing seems to be known but this 

 autograph and date. A man of the same name accompanied 

 Oiiate's expedition of 1598-9.! 



PLATE IX. 



Dia 28 tie Sep(tiembr)e de 1737 a(no)s 



llego aqiii el ill(ustrisi)mo S(eno) r D(octo)r D(o)n Mar(ti)ii 

 (le Klizeacocliea Ob (is) po de Durango 

 y el dia 29 paso a 

 Zuni 



Day 28 of December of 1737 years 



arrived here the most illnstrions Setior Doctor Don Martin 

 de Elizeacocliea, Bishop of Durango, 

 and the day 29 passed to 

 Ziiiii. 



Represented by Simpson, plate 66, and translated on page 

 124. Transliterated and translated by Lummis on page 179. 



This inscription, according to Lummis, X records the first 

 visit to Ztiiii of a Bishop of Durango. New Mexico was 

 included in his bishopric. 



Plate III records probably a member of the Bishop's com- 

 pany. 



*LTinimis, loc. cit., page 172. t B'^iucroft, loc. cit., page 125. 

 ^"Ivununis, loc. cit., page 179. 



