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been struck with surprise to observe the large numbers 

 who had been killed by Indians numerous instances 

 where whole families had been so destroyed, and 

 all families seemed to have suffered in this respect. 

 I am acquainted with a young man who, out of twelve 

 uncles and aunts, had eleven killed by Indians. 

 Until the Apaches were lately secured upon a reser- 

 vation, and the Navajos some time before, yearly 

 massacres were common, but happily relieved in 

 recent years. 



The Spaniards, ever cruel and aggressive, and 

 feeling secure in their possession, finally carried 

 their inhuman treatment of the Pueblos to such an 

 extent that they rose in unanimous action on the 

 1 3th of August, in 1680, at a given signal, and very 

 nearly exterminated every Spaniard in the region, 

 amounting to several thousands men, women and 

 children. This was a most remarkable revolution, 

 since no intimation of the unanimous uprising was 

 given, excepting that of two servants of the Spanish 

 governor at Santa Fe\ two days before the uprising. 

 The governor had barely time to concentrate his 

 small military force of a few hundred, when he was 

 surrounded by several thousand natives, by whom he 

 was harassed for several days at great peril, and 

 from whom he was compelled to retreat as a last 

 resort, and succeeded in reaching Isleta, some sixty 

 miles south, where he was re-enforced by several 

 hundred more Spaniards the only surviving ones 

 in the region who had escaped massacre. Thus sup- 

 ported he sustained himself for a while, when a fur- 

 ther general retreat was made on foot down the Rio 

 Grande two hundred miles to El Paso, which he 



