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Events now begin to crowd on each other in quick succession, 

 but my duties keep me so constantly occupied in my office and in 

 the fieldj that I cannot chronicle them in regular order or e^ter 

 ^nuich upon details- On the morning of the lOth, the general as- 

 sembled all the people in the plaza and addressed them at some 

 lensfth. 



The next dayj the chiefs and head men of the Pueblo Indians 

 came to give in their adhesion and express their great satisfaction at 

 our arrival. This large and formidable tribe are amongst the best 

 and most peaceable citizens of New Mexico. They, early after the 

 Spanish conquest, embraced the forms of religion, and the manners 

 and customs of their then more civilized masters, the Spaniards. 

 Their interview was long and interesting. They narrated, what is a' 

 tradition, with them, that the white man would come from the far 

 east and release them from the bonds and shackles which .the 

 Spaniards had imposed, not in the name, but in a worse form than 

 slavery. 



They and the numerous half-breeds are our fast friends now atiJ 

 forever. Three hundred years of oppression and injustice have 

 failed to extinguish in this race the recollection that they were 

 once the peaceable and inoffensive, masters of the country. 



A message was received the same night from Armijo, asking on 

 what terms he would be received; but this proved to be only a ruse 

 on his part to gain time' in his flight to the south. Accounts go to 

 .show that his force at the .Canon was 4,000 Aien, tolerably armed, 

 and six pieces of artillery. Had he been possessed of the slightest 

 qualifications for a general, he might have given us infinite trouble, 

 A priest arrived last night, the 29th, and brought the intelligence 

 that, at the moment of Armijo's flight, Ugarte, a colonel in the re- 

 gular service, was on his march, at this side of the Pa?so del Norte, 

 with 500 men to support him. That, had he continued, he \Tould 

 have been enabled to rouse the whole, southern district, \rhich is by 

 far th^ wealthiest and most populous of the whole country. 



In the course of the week, various deputations have comeinfrom 

 Taos, giving in their allegiance and asking protection from the 

 Indians. That portion of the country seems the best disposed to- 

 wards the United States. A Taos man may be distinguished at 

 once by the cordiality of his salutation.* 



A tand of Navajoes, naked, thin, and savage looking fellows, 

 dropped in and took up their quarters with Mr, Robideaux, our 

 interpreter, just opposite my quarters. They ate, drank, and slept 

 all the time, noticing nothing but a little cinnamon-colored naked brat 

 that was playing in the court, which they gazed at with the eyes 

 of gastronome'sj and Mr. Fitzpatrick told me these people some- 

 times eat their own offspring, and consider it a great delicacy. 



Various rumors have reached us from the south that troops are 

 moving on Santa Fe, and that the people are rising, '&c. To quiet 



•Since this was written, the massacre of the excellent Governor B;nt has taken place ia 

 Taos. It proves the profound duplicity of this race, 



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