[81] This method of reckoning time has been observed in many countries and in all ages. Herodotus describes it as a device of Darius for the Ionian chiefs: Boturini found it among the relics of ancient Mexico, and in the Polynesian islands it has not yet altogether disappeared. According to Fiske, the Spaniards were “astonished at seeing how many things the Peruvians could record with their _quipus_ (knotted cords).” _Discovery of America_, Vol. II, pp. 298-300. [82] The Navajo, Havasupai and Walapai use knotted cords to-day in just this way to keep account of time, but not for other purposes. [83] La Toma is within the present limits of Texas near the monastery of Guadalupe. [84] Hackett, p. 155. [85] Hackett, _The Pueblo Revolt of 1680_. [86] Vetancur gives a list of all the missions as they existed just before the Revolt with valuable details about some of them. Of Ácoma he says it was dedicated to S. Estévan on a peñol east of Sía. It was one league in circumference and had fifteen hundred inhabitants who had been converted by Fray Juan Ramírez. “In 1680 they put to death their padre, Fray Lucas Maldonado, native of Tribujona of the same province.” Vetancur, _Crónica_, III. [87] Escalante, _Carta_, 122, 123, translated in Bancroft, _Arizona and New Mexico_, Vol. XVII, footnote to p. 185. [88] Between 1680-1692 we have the record of Don Carlos de Siguënza y Góngora, _Mercurio Volante_, Mexico, 1693. In this the number of soldiers is given as nine. Translated by Read, _History of New Mexico_, p. 288. [89] From the Journals of De Vargas printed in translation in _Ola Santa Fé_, January, 1914, and October, 1916; Bandelier, _Final Report_, Part II, pp. 215, 216, also gives some details. Also in Twitchell, _Some Leading Facts in New Mexico History_. [90] The same L’Archeveque who, when a younger man, traitorously helped to assassinate his leader La Salle in 1687. Now in middle age, he was serving Spain, and in the Franco-Hispanic War of 1720 he was sent on an errand to the junction of the North and South Platte rivers, where he met his death in a surprise attack on the Pawnee Indians just as he was breaking camp to return to Santa Fé. [91] Bancroft, _Arizona and New Mexico_, p. 226. [92] A letter to the _Procurador-General_, Fray José Miguel de los Ríos, from Father Trigo, July 23, 1754, concerning the Christian and political government of the mission of San Pedro and San Pablo in New Mexico. [93] A _fanega_ equals two and one-half bushels. [94] An _almud_ equals one-fifth of a bushel. [95] For this and the preceding items the writer is indebted to Miss E. M. Healey (MS. thesis), University of California, Department of History. [96] Good accounts are in James, _Land of Delight Makers_, and Prince, _Spanish Mission Churches of New Mexico_. It is this building upon which were based the designs for the exhibition house of New Mexico at the San Diego exposition in 1915-16, as well as part of the new art museum in Santa Fé.