Juan de Onate 
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seeing at that time the celebrated Inscription Rock/ for, though 
his name is said to be first of European marks, the date is 1606. 
Entrance to Acoma, N. M. 
The town is on top of a mesa, and was a prominent point on the 
highway from the Rio Grande to Zuni. 
Photograph by Ben Wittick. 
From Zuni he went to the Moki towns, then five in number, 
and possibly somewhat south of the present place. Beyond 
* This is a quadrangular mass of sandstone about a mile long, thirty-five miles 
east of Zuni. On its base at the eastern end are a number of native and 
European inscriptions, the oldest, of the European dates according to Simpson, 
being 1606, recording a visit by Onate. The rock, or, more properly, mesa, is 
also called the Morro. Chas. F. Lummis has also written on this subject. 
