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horse camp, which was safe when he left, having chased the
enemies away.
On the twenty-fourth the Indian war captains notified me that
they had seen and scouted five tracks of enemy Apaches on the
other bank of the river on the path to the Sierra de los Organos.
For our safety, I took the steps which were called for, and there
was no other result.
On the twenty-eighth, I detached a deputy corporal with three
soldiers of the body of this company so that they might conduct
from the new settlement of Carrizal to this royal presidio the
above mentioned captive in order that [I might] examine him
and learn whether he comes in good faith, so that I might make
use of him on the expeditions which I plan to make to the Sierra
de Gila and other [mountains] in which are encamped the bar-
barous enemy Apaches who, with their frequent depredations,
have caused great consternation in the kingdom of Nueva Vizcaya
and the provinces of Sonora, not without hurting this kingdom
at the same time.
Month of July
On the first of the month the above mentioned assistant cor-
poral and three soldiers returned with the captive, who to my
questioning and requestioning answered that he was a Christian
named Marcos, born in the pueblo of Babicora, from which he
went to the valley of San Buenaventura, where he agreed to work
for a certain Parra as a horse tender in his drove [of beasts of bur-
den], and who being in the valley and being about ten or twelve
years of age, was captured by the enemy Apaches who lived at the
rancherfa called Corral de Picora in the Sierra de Gila. The
captains of the rancheria were then and are now the Indians
named Chafalote, father and sons. At this place, having already
reached the proper age to bear arms on the various occasions
that the Indians departed to attack the settlements of this king-
dom of New Mexico, this jurisdiction of El Paso, and also those
of Nueva Vizcaya, they took him with them. On these occasions
he was witness to the killings and robberies that the enemy
Indians inflicted on us. He had a clash with a son of Captain
Chafalote, and was tied and cruelly horsewhipped by him and
condemned to die on the following day. Until the execution, he2'74
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