The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 112
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knoll to intercept any who might pass that way. While waiting
there Hidalgo saw an Indian named El Obi come out of the
ravine with a shield which the priest had carried, and also a little
later he saw the interpreter of the pueblo, named Nicolas, painted
with clay, and bespattered with blood, come out from the same
place. These and others approached him, caught his horse by the
bridle reins, and took away his sword and hat. Fearing injury
at their hands, he seized his arquebus, put spurs to his horse, and
was able to escape to the plain below, even dragging for some dis-
tance those who held on to him, while those from above shot many
arrows at him, without effect. The priest did not come out, and
Hidalgo judged, from what he had seen and experienced, that he
must have been killed, and so hastened back to the villa, reaching
there about seven o'clock in the morning.1
(3) The Outbreak at Naob and Pojoaque.-Closely associ-
ated with the neighboring pueblos, and with their chiefs repre-
sented in the councils of the allies, were the two small pueblos of
Nambe and Pojoaque. The latter was one of the smallest of the
Tewa pueblos, though its population at that time cannot be de-
termined, and it was situated less than a league west of Namb6.
The pueblo of Namb6 was about three leagues from Tesuque, and,
including the nearby settlements of Jacona and Cuyamunque, had
a population of six hundred Indians. The Indians of Cuya-
munque, as has already been noted, joined the Tesuque Indians in
the revolt, and, though no mention is made of the fact, it is prob-
able that the small number at the settlement of Jacona joined
those of the pueblo of Nambe, doubtless feeling insecure at such a
time of unrest.
In both Nambe and Pojoaque (for which the available records
are very meagre), the revolt began at about the same time as in
the other pueblos. When the macstro de campo, Francisco Gomez,
who was despatched by Otermin with a squad of soldiers to re-
connoiter the Tewa pueblos, returned to the villa on August 12,
he reported among the dead at Nambb, Fray Tomas de Torres,
Sebastian de Torres and his wife, and others whose names he did
not give. At the same time he found that in the pueblo of
Pojoaque the Indians had killed Captain Francisco Ximenes and
""Declarasion de Po hidalgo . . . Soldado," in Auttos tocantes, 2.
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