What to see in America . Inscription Rock, El Moro Forest Aztecs. According to anIndian legend Monte-zuma was born in thisvicinity, whence he jour-neyed southward on theback of an eagle. Thepeople followed, and ateach place where theeagle stopped for thenight they founded acity. Finally the city ofMexico was built wherethe eagles long flightended. A great-grand-daughter of the Aztecchief, Montezuma, married a wealthy Spaniard, who becamethe founder of Santa Fe, which, next to St. Augustine, is theoldest town in the United States. In 1598 he startedfrom Mexico with 400 colonists, 83 wagons, and

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What to see in America . Inscription Rock, El Moro Forest Aztecs. According to anIndian legend Monte-zuma was born in thisvicinity, whence he jour-neyed southward on theback of an eagle. Thepeople followed, and ateach place where theeagle stopped for thenight they founded acity. Finally the city ofMexico was built wherethe eagles long flightended. A great-grand-daughter of the Aztecchief, Montezuma, married a wealthy Spaniard, who becamethe founder of Santa Fe, which, next to St. Augustine, is theoldest town in the United States. In 1598 he startedfrom Mexico with 400 colonists, 83 wagons, and 7000cattle. He reached theIndian pueblo of SanJuan about thirty milesnorth of Santa Fe, andthere he built a town onthe west side of the RioGrande. Not until eightyears later did he removeto Santa Fe, where heestablished his settle-ment on the site of twosmall Indian pueblos. Such was the zeal ofthe Franciscan mission-aries that by 1617 eleven Navajo (. :ear Fort Wingate

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