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126 EETREAT OF THE SPANIARDS. 



booty taken, with forty-seven prisoners, who 

 after some examination as to the 



ongui 01 



the conspiracy, were ah shot The Spaniards, 

 according to theh account of the affaii, only 

 had four or five men killed, although a consi- 

 derable number were wounded — the governor 

 among the rest. 



The ^ city of Santa Fe, notwithstanding a 

 remammg population of at least a thousand 

 souls, could not muster above a hundred able- 

 bodied men to oppose the multitude that be- 

 set them, which had now increased to about 

 three thousand. Therefore Governor Oter- 

 min, with tlie advice of the most intellicrpnt 



more 



citizens m the place, resolved to abandon the 

 city. On the following day (August 21), they 

 accordmgly set out, the greater portion afoot, 

 carrying their own pro\isions ; as there were 

 ^^rcely animals enough for tlie wounded. 

 Their march was undistiurbed by the Indians, 

 who only watched their movements tUl they 



passed Isleta, when nothing 



^^j\em. Here they found that those who 

 had been stationed at Isleta had also retreated 

 to the south a few days before. As they pass- 

 ed through the country, they found the Pue- 

 blos deserted by the Lidians, and the Spa- 

 niards who pertained to them all massacred. 



They had not continued on their march for 

 many days, when the caravan became utterly 

 unable to proceed ; for they were not only 

 without ammals, but upon the point of starva- 

 ton—the Indians having removed from the 

 route everj^hing that could have afforded 



