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induced by tbe priests who accompanied liim, and whom the Indians, 

 knowing' them to be unarmed, allowed to approach, to hold parley. It 

 is probable that Don Tomas, finding it impossible to storm their rock 

 successfully, promised that if they would yield the wretched mestizo 

 who had cut oft' the hand and torn away the scalp of Fray Martin, he 

 and his people would leave them in jjeace. At any rate, the mutilator 

 of the friar was yielded, and in due course was hanged by the Spanish 

 authorities. 



Then giadually the Zuiiis descended from their stronghold and a few 

 years later were peacefully reoccupying the largest four of their towns. 

 More than thirty years elapsed before the missions of the Purifica- 

 tion at Hiilona and the Immaculate Conception at Hiiwik'uh were 

 reestablished. In 1670 Fray Juan Galdo was the resident priest at 

 the one, and at the other Fray Pecb'o de Avila y Ayala. But in the 

 autumn of the year named a numerous band of Apache-Navajo attacked 

 the town of H.'iwik'uh, and, making for the lower courts where stood 

 the church and convent, they dragged Fray Avila from the altar, at 

 which he had sought refuge, clinging to the cross and an image of the 

 Yirgiu, and, stripping him, beat him to death with one of the church 

 bells at the foot of the cross in the courtyard hard by. They then 

 plundered and burned the church, threw the image of the Virgin into 

 the flames, and, transfixing the body of the priest with more than 200 

 arrows, cast upon it stones and the carcasses of three dead lambs. The 

 mutilated corpse was thus found the following day by Fray Galdo and 

 carried to Hdlona for sepulture in the Church of the Purification 

 there. 



After this tragic occurrence the pueblo of H4wik'uh was abandoned 

 by the missionaries and for a short time at least by its native inhabitants 

 as well. Nevertheless, it seems highly probable that other Zuiiis, if not 

 indeed some of the townspeople themselves, had to do with the tragic 

 aftair just related, for there is no evidence that, although the i^eople 

 of Hftwik'uh were numerous, any of them came to the rescue of the 

 father, or that their town was sacked, whereas the church was plun- 

 dered and burned. 



They do not seem, however, to have done injury to the priest of 

 Hiilona, for just previously to the summer of 1680 when they, in com- 

 mon with all the other Pueblo Indians, joined in the revolt against 

 Spanish rule and religion, they were tolerating the presence of Fray 

 Juan de Bal at this town and of another priest, it seems, at Hdwik'uh. 



When the message strands of that great war magician, Pope of 

 Taos, who had planned the rebellion and sent forth the knotted strings 

 of invitation and warning, were received by the Zunis, their leaders of 

 one accord consented to join the movement and sped the war strands 

 farther on to the Tusayan country, there insisting with the less cour- 

 ageous Hopi that they join also, and ultimately gaining their at first 

 divided consent. 



