we reached the first set

tlements. We were in such extreme need that the governor [sent] men ahead to the first pueblos with eighty pack animals to bring maize . . . although it was against the wishes of the natives and to their great grief . . . Because of this and other annoyances, the Indians fear us so much that, on seeing

• us appro
• ach ... they flee to
• the moun
• tains, abandonin
• g their homes, and so
• we take whatever we wish
• from them. (DJO 609-10
• ) Note
• that Onate himself,
• arriving well aft
• er his men,
• does not "conquer"; f
• ollowing the wanto
• n pilla
• ge and bru
• tal "annoyances" of his

soldiers, he instead "invites" the terrorized Indians to appreciate the Christian mission of the visitors, and asks them to participate in the official Acts of Vassalage and Obedience (a reading of an even more edit