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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 field, that I cannot chronicle them in regular order or enter 
much upon details. On the morning of the 19th, the general as-. | 
era all the people in the plaza and addressed them at some 
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The next day, the chiefs and head men of the Pueblo Indians: 
came to givein 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, pccayentiigs the forms of religion, and the manners 
. and customs of their then more civilized masters, the Spaniards. 
Their interview was aplhe 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 
Span‘ards had imposed, not in the name, but in a worse form than 
slavery. 
They and the numerous half-breeds are our fast friends now and 
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. 
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“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 Cafion was 4,000 men, tolerably armed, 
and six pieces of artillery. Had he been possessed of the sli htest 
qualifications. general, he might have given us infinite ble. 
A priest mes t night, the 29th, and brought the intelligence 
that at the moment of Armijo’s flight, Ugarté, a colonel in the re- 
gular service, was on his march, at this side of the Passodel Norte, 
with 500 men to support him. That, had he continued, he would 
have been enabled to rouse the whole southern district, which i is by 
” far the wealthiest and most populous of the whole country. ‘ 
In the course of the week, various deputations have come in from 
Taos, giv ig in their allegiance and asking protection from the 
‘Indians. That portion of the country seems the best disposed to- 
wards ace United States. aos man may be distinguished at 
0 Ze by the cordiality of his salutation.* e 
A band of Navajoes, naked, thin, and savage looking fellows, 
dropped i in and took up their quarters with Mr. Robideaux, our 
interpreter, just opposite my quarters. They ate, drank, and slept — 
allthetime, noticing nothing buta little cinnamon-colored naked brat 
that was playing 1 in the court, which they gazed > pie the eyes © 
of gastronome’s; and Mr. Fitzpatrick told me these people some- 
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times eat their own offspring, and consider it a great delicacy. 3 
Various rumors have reached us from the south that troops et 
moving on = — and that the Bye are rising, Sees : 
* Since t iis * thes written, the massacre of the excellent Governor es Fie ti | a 2 
Taos, It pr the e profound duplicity of this race. ge a ee i 
