Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-10-22
Additional Folios of the Celebrated
De Vargas Manuscript on File in
the Territorial Library.
CERTIFIED COPY PRINTED
Translation of An Account Of Battle Be-
tween spaniards and PueblOs As Relat-
ed in the De Vargas Journals
Interesting Narrative.

Tor presentation Ill eNlueiiGc pcloiS 'AN
United States court of land claims in
the suit of the city of Santa Fe against
the government, February IL, 1893, Tor
four square leagues of land including
the city of Santa Fe, and it has been as
certained that the entire journal was
printed and filed in the City of Mexico
in 1894, in the general public archives
at the Mexican capital. So, it will not
be a difficult matter, if Doctor Coues
cares to go to the trouble and expense,
for him to make a trip to the City OF
Mexico and examine the certified copy
kept there in case he is determined to
reproduce what can not be CLEANED
from the ten crumbly pages in the mss
which he has been given the privilege
of examining.
AS to the missing folios, it is believed
in some quarters that part disappeared
in 1870, when so many of the territorial
public documents were deliberately
time precious historical papers were
scattered and partly destroyed by Gov
ernor Pile. AT that time precious his
torical papers were thrown right and
left and given away to whomsoever
might care to cart them off.
Again, valuable folios of the journal
now alleged to have been in the hands
of a private citizen of this city are
claimed by him to have been returned
to the territorial library; but there Is
a denial Of this from the library, ane
the query is. where are they? The extra
were used in court, account for the mar
rative from page 147, where the manu-
script examined by DR.. Coues leaves
off, up to page 24.
According to Special Agent Flipper,
of the United States court of land
claims, who has carefully examined
considerable of the manuscript, Dc
Vargas at first came only a little north
of Albuquerque, and then returned tc
Ell Paso, subsequently resuming his
march north to this city. Portions OF
the entire narrative which were trans.
lated for court use as already noted
give an account of the battle of Cochiti
and are taken from the journals sub
searent to the folio ending December
"a, 1898.
The governor general was camped be-
before Cochiti in April, 1894, with his
forces, and had sent for a force OF
ia him In maxine
the assault. His narrative then says:
The said friendly natives having ar.
rived, the said governor and captain
general starts to attack the mesa Of the
Cieneguilla and Pueblo of Cochiti.
On this day, Friday, at about 8 O'Clock
p. M, on the 18th day Of the month OF
April Of the date and year, the sale
friendly warriors, who have been de
tached from the Pueblo of Cha and San.
ia Anna having arrived, accompanied
by these and by those from the Pueblo
Of San Felipe, I, the said governor an6
captain general, went with said force
to the attack Of the revolted QUERIES
their pueblo being situated on the mes
of the C~ieneguilla of Cochiti, and hav.
ing Travelled five leagues, as it seemed
from the march, I stopped, for it was
between II and IL at night and the said
mesa having appeared to view, and s
that we might not be detached by the
enemy. who, by the light of the fires
that they keep burning, 1t is seen thai
they keep sentinels on the watch, anG
for the sake of waiting, and to chang,
horses, the said force made a stop al
the edge of a bluff and ~ravine, and tina,
it may so appear l signed it, with my
said secretary of government and war.
DIEGO DE VARGAS ZAPATA LII.
JAN PONCE DE LEON, (rubric)
Before me,
ALPHONSO RAEL DE AGUILAR,
(rubric.)
Attack and wal upon the mesa of the
~Cieneguilla of Cochiti made by the said
governor. and captain general with the
said force [1694.1
On the 18th day Of the present month
of April 1884 on the said date and year
as the moon was coming up, at 2 o'clock
in the morning, having waited until
said hour, I, the governor and captain
general, having consulted and conferr-
ed with the said chiefs and with the
captain of the QUERIES, my compadre,
de Ojeda, about the roads
leading up to the said mesa of the Glen
aguila of Cochiti, for the rebel Indians
the QUERIES nation and of the new Pu- |
eblo Of Cochiti, had 1t all fortified with
intrenchments and meats, which I
hey call traps, Notwithstanding thai /
t of itself is extremely steep ant
straight, and is all of rock, which rem
1t impregnable, 1t was learned /
rom the said Captain Bartolome dc
ojeda that the said mesa had on its side /
l road leading up to 1t, which is the cas-
est road, for 1t Is the one used by tn |
indians for driving their horses ant |
heir stock and Is better adapted for the |
of great damage to the said en-.
ny, because by that way 1t could be at
acked from the ear and the othe !
Dad leading to it also, they had on tn
,ther side for the purposes of goins
Town to Ell Embudo and to the sprinl |
rom which they take their water sup
lily. And having thus discussed the said
hree roads leading up to it the sale |
Bartolome de Ojeda asked M
o furnish him with forty men Of my |
aid force and hat he would go with
90 Indians to occupy that road, that
hey used for their cattle; in view o.
which I commanded the two field cap
aims, Juan Olguin and Eusebio de Var
with 40 mounted troops, to procee,
nd make the assault, while at the same
line the captain and Corporal Rogue
fadrid attacked by the principal road
0 the mesa, 1t having become neces-