. To California and back;. or ofmany generations, for its walls are 60 feet high and10 feet thick, and it has timbers 40 feet long and 14inches square. The Acomas welcomed the soldiers of Coronadowith deference, ascribing to them celestial , upon learning the distinctly humancharacter of the Spaniards, they professed allegiance,but afterward wantonly slew a dozen of Zaldivarsmen. By way of reprisal Zaldivar headed three-scoresoldiers and undertook to carry the sky-citadel by as-sault. The incident has no parallel in American his-tory short of the memorable and similar exploi
. To California and back;. or ofmany generations, for its walls are 60 feet high and10 feet thick, and it has timbers 40 feet long and 14inches square. The Acomas welcomed the soldiers of Coronadowith deference, ascribing to them celestial , upon learning the distinctly humancharacter of the Spaniards, they professed allegiance,but afterward wantonly slew a dozen of Zaldivarsmen. By way of reprisal Zaldivar headed three-scoresoldiers and undertook to carry the sky-citadel by as-sault. The incident has no parallel in American his-tory short of the memorable and similar exploit of Cor-tez on the great Aztec Pyramid. After a three dayshand-to-hand struggle the Spaniards stood victors up-on that seemingly impregnable fortress and receivedthe submission of the Queres, who for three-quartersof a century thereafter remained tractable. In thatinterval the priest came to Acoma and held foolingfor fifty years, until the bloody uprising of 1680 oc-curred, in which priest, soldier and settler were mas-29.
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