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so utterly different in theory, were here, as in all Mexico, blended 
in harmonious practice until about a century since, when the town 
was sacked by a band of Indians. 
+ Amidst the havoc of plunder of the city, the faithful Indian man- ? 
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aged toakecp his fire burning in the estuffa} and it was continued 
till a few. 1 
as to be unable to keep their immense éstuffa (forty feet ia diameg 
ter) replenished, when they abandoned the place and joined a tribe 
~ of the original race over the m untains, about sixty nfles south. 
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There, it is said, to this day they keep up their fire, which. has 
reyer yet been extinguished. © The labor, watchfulness, and exXpo- . 
sure to heat consequent on _ practice of their faith, is fast re- 
ducing this remnant of the ontezuma race; and a few years will, 
in all probability, see the last of this interesting people. The ac- 
companying sketches will give a much more accurate representa- 
tion of these ruins than any written descriptions. The remains of 
the modern church, with its crosses, its cells, its dark mysterious 
ers and niches, differ but little from those of the present day 
New Mexico. The architecture of the Indian 7 
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artillery, and every thing was braced up for a foreed march. ¢ 
years since—the tribe became almost extinct. Their de-, 
yotions rapidly diminished their numbers, until they became so few 
ortion of the 
48.—We were this morning 29 miles from Santa Fé. 
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