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other prifoner but him, it is not yet exactly known 

 neither from what part of New Mexico thefe Spani- 

 ards came, nor with what defign : for what I firft 

 told you of the affair, was founded upon the reports 

 of the Indians only, who perhaps had a mind to 

 make their court to us by giving it to be under- 

 flood, that they had done us a very material piece 

 of fervice by this defeat. 



All they brought me was the fpoils of the chap- 

 lain who had been killed, and they found likewife 

 a prayer-book, which I have not feen : this was 

 probably his breviary. I bought the piftol : the 

 lhoes were good for nothing ; and the Indian would 

 by no means part with the ointment, having taken 

 it into his head, that it was a fovereign remedy a- 

 gainft all forts of evils. I was curious to know- 

 how he intended to make life of it ; he anfwered 

 that it was fufficient to fwallow a little of it, and 

 let the difeafe be what it would the cure was im- 

 mediate he did not fay however that he had as yet 

 made trial of it, and I advifed him againft it- 

 The Indians begin here to be very ignorant, and 

 are very far from being fo fenfible or at leaft fo 

 communicative, as thole who have more commerce 

 with us. 



(The day following, the Sakies came in a con- 

 fiderable body to the miffionary's houfe, where I lod- 

 ged, and begged me to be prefent at a council they 

 were going to hold. I confented, and when every 

 one had taken his place, the chief laid a collar 

 upon the ground before me, and the orator break- 

 ing filence, befought me, in the name of the whole 

 body, to engage the King to take them under his 

 protection, and to purify the air, which, faid they, 

 had been corrupted for fome time pad which 



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