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Retreat of the Spaniards from New Mexico in 1680 153
indicate that some of the northern settlers had survived in Santa
F6. These letters of Garcia and Father Mendoza were received
by Leiva and Father Ayeta at El Paso on August 25, at eight
o'clock in the morning. Immediately Leiva and his men assem-
bled to confer upon the bad news which they contained, while the
religious repaired to the monastery of Guadalupe for a season of
prayer. It was finally decided to prepare and start aid to Garcia
by August 28. Accordingly the 26th and 27th were spent in
unloading the wagons, and in making necessary preparations.
On the night of the 27th, as Father Ayeta, affirms, the full
danger surrounding all was realized. The departure of the sup-
plies was delayed, and on August 28, instead of despatching them
as intended,' Ayeta sent a letter to Garcia by Indian runners, in-
forming him that aid would be started on. August 30, and sug-
gesting that in the interim he should halt in some convenient
place, attempt to fortify it, and then send messengers to guide
the train, which would by that time be on the way. Ayeta re-
quested this because, as he stated, they were all badly confused on
account of the meager reports which at that time they had re-
ceived.2 At El Paso the 28th and 29th were spent in arming and
equipping the servants (mosos) whom Leiva's escort of twenty-
seven" men had with them when they came from New Mexico,
that they might accompany the aid sent to the refugees further up
the river. It was found that in all there were seventy-eight arque-
buses in first-class condition, and with these fifty-one more men
were armed.4 Before starting Ayeta insisted upon the selection
'"Carta del Padre Visitador a el Exmo. Sr. Virrey (Aug. 31, 1680),"
in N. Mex. Doec., I, 569-71.
21 have not had access to the letter of August 28 from Ayeta to
Garefa, but the above information is summarized in the "Carta del R.
P. Procurador Fr. Francisco de Ayeta -al Exmo. Sr. Virrey (September
11, 1680)," in N. Mex. Doc., I, p. 526.
'Ayeta speaks as though Leiva had only twenty-seven men under his
command at the pass, though Otermfn states that he had despatched
Leiva with thirty men to meet the wagons. "Autto. (de Otermfn)," in
Auttos tocantes, 15.
4"Carta del Padre Visitador a el Exmo. Sr. Virrey (August 31, 1680),"
in N. Mex. Doec., I, p. 571. Don Juan Villagutierre y Soto-mayor, who
published in 1701 his Historia de la Conquista y Redvcciones de los
Itzaem y Lacandones en la America Septentrional, and who was, there-
fore, practically speaking, contemporary with the revolt, has a fairly
good, though brief account of the Indian uprising in New Memico in
1680, notwithstanding a number of manifest errors. In Book III, Chap.
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