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"You will pardon me if I ask for proof?" "Certainly. Choose the name of any one of them you like and send for him. You are at liberty to ask him whether he is pledged to us." The governor drew a pencil-mark through a name. O'Halloran clapped his hands and Rodrigo came into the room. "Rodrigo, the governor desires you to carry a message to Colonel Onate. He is writing it now.
Onate, 1604, Crosses Arizona to the Colorado A Remarkable Ancient Ruin Discovered by Padre Kino, 1694 Padre Garces Sees the Grand Canyon and Visits Oraibi, 1776 The Great Entrada of Padre Escalante across Green River to Utah Lake, 1776 Death of Garces Ends the Entrada Period, 1781. In the historical development of the Basin of the Colorado four, chief epochs are apparent.
"There is a Telling of that passing and of that soldier which has to do with the gold that was never found." "Sons eso," said the Road-Runner, and they settled themselves to listen. "About the third of a man's life would have passed between the time when Onate came to the founding of Santa Fe, and the building of the first church by Father Letrado.
"Villa," or village, was an honorary title, always authorized and proclaimed by the king. Bancroft says that it was first officially mentioned on the 3d of January, 1617. The first immigration to New Mexico was under Don Juan de Onate about 1597, and in a year afterward, according to some authorities, Santa Fe was settled.
I, Lopez de Aguirre, thy vassal, an old Christian, of poor but noble parents, and a native of the town of Onate in Biscay, passed over young to Peru, to labour lance in hand. I rendered thee great services in the conquest of India. I fought for thy glory, without demanding pay of thy officers, as is proved by the books of thy treasury.
In 1604, Don Juan de Onate, the wealthy governor of New Mexico, determined to cross from his headquarters at the village of San Juan on the Rio Grande, by this route to the South Sea, and, accompanied by thirty soldiers and two padres, he set forth, passing west by way of the pueblo of Zuni, and probably not seeing at that time the celebrated Inscription Rock,* for, though his name is said to be first of European marks, the date is 1606.
The pueblo, called "Aguato" in the account of that visit, was without doubt Awatobi. The name Aguatuybá, mentioned by Oñate, is also doubtless the same, although, as pointed out to me by Mr Hodge, "through an error probably of the copyist or printer, the name Aguatuybá is inadvertently given by Oñate among his list of Hopi chiefs, while Esperiez is mentioned among the pueblos."
While the different pueblos of Tusayan were not specially mentioned until forty years after they were first visited, the name Awatobi is readily recognized in the account of Espejo in 1583, where it is called Aguato, which appears as Zaguato and Ahuato in Hakluyt. In the time of Oñate the same name is written Aguatuybá.
The missionaries who accompanied Juan de Oñate in 1597 built a chapel at San Gabriel, but no fragment of it remains, though in 1680 its ruins were referred to. The second church in New Mexico was built about 1606 in Santa Fé, the new city founded the year before by Oñate.
Whether they disappeared during the ruthless dispersion of its archives in 1857 or were lost at an earlier date is not known. After the recall of Oñate from New Mexico, not only the colony but also the missions in that distant land began to decline, owing to the bitter contentions between the political and the ecclesiastical authorities.
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