wiKSHip] TRANSLATION OF CASTANEDA 497 



Nobody told him about the peace that had been granted them, for the 

 soldiers knew as little as he, and those who should have told him about 

 it remained silent, not thinking- that it was any of their business. Then 

 when the enemies saw that the Spaniards were binding them and 

 beginning to roast them, about a hundred men who were in the tent 

 began to struggle and defend themselves with what there was there 

 and with the stakes they could seize. Our men who were on foot 

 attacked the tent on all sides, so that there was great confusion around 

 it, and then the horsemen chased those who escaped. As the country 

 was level, not a man of them remained alive, unless it was some who 

 remained hidden in the village and escaped that night to spread through- 

 out the country the news that the strangers did not respect the peace 

 they had made, which afterward proved a great misfortune. After this 

 was over, it began to snow, and they abandoned the village and returned 

 to the camp just as the army came from Cibola. ' 



Chapter 16, of how they besieged Tigueoo and took it and of what hap- 

 pened during the siege. 



As I have already related, it began to snow in that country just after 

 they captured the village, and it snowed so much that for the nest two 

 months it was impossible to do anything except to go along the roads 

 to advise them to make peace ard tell them that they would be par- 

 doned and might consider themselves safe, to which they replied that 

 they did not trust those who did not know how to keep good faith after 

 they had once given it, and that the Spaniards should remember that 

 they were keeping Whiskers prisoner and that they did not keep their 

 word when they burned those who surrendered in the village. Don 

 Garcia Lopez de Cardenas was one of those who went to give this notice. 

 He started out with about 30 companions and went to the village of 

 Tiguex to talk with Juan Aleman. Although they were hostile, they 

 talked with him and said that if he wished to talk with them he must dis- 

 mount and they would come out and talk with him about a peace, and 



'Goniara, cap. ccxiiii, gives the following account of these events: " Fueronselos Indios vnanoche 

 y amanecieron muertos t reynta eauallos, que puso temor al exercito. Cauiinando, queraaron vn lugar, y 

 en otro que acometieron, Lea matarou ciertos Espanoles, y hiricron cinquenta eauallos, y metieron dentro 

 los vezinos a Francisco de Oufido, herido, o muerto, para comer, y sacrificar, a lo que pensaron, o 

 quica para mejor ver, que horahres eran los Espanoles, ca no se hallo por alii rastro de sacrificio 

 humano. Pusieron cerco los nuestros al lugar, pero no lo pudieron tomar en masdequarenta, y cinco 

 dias. Beuian uieue los cercados por falta de agua, y viendose perdidos, hizieron vna hoguera, echaron 

 en ella sus mfitas, plumajes, Tnrqucsas, y cosas preciadas, porque no lasgozassen aquellosestrangeros. 

 Salieron en esquadron, con los nifios, y mugeresen medio, para abrircaminopor fuerca, y saluarse: mas 

 pocos escaparon de las espadas, y eauallos, y do vn rio q cerca estaua. Murieron en la pelea siete 

 Espanoles y quedaron hcridos ocheta, y inuchos eauallos, porq veays quanto vale la determinacion 

 en la necessidad. Muchos Indios se boluieron al pueblo, con la gente roenuda, y se defendieron hasta 

 que se les puso fuego, Elose tanto aquel rio estado en siete y treynta grados do la Equinocial, que 

 sufria passar encima homhres a cauallo, y eauallos con carga. Dura la nieve medio auo. Ay en 

 aqlla ribera nielones, y algodon bianco, y Colorado, de que hazen muy mas anchas mantas, que en 

 otras partes de Indias." 



Mota Padilla, xxxii, 6, p, 161: "Esta accion se tuvo en Espafia por mala, y con razon, porque file. 

 una crueldad considerable; y habiendo el maese de eainpo, Garcia Lopez pasado a Espaua a hcredar 

 un mayorazgo, estuvo preso en una fortaleza por este cargo." 

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