[14] The accompanying cut represents both sides of a medal of "_Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Mexico_," of which, as I have been informed, 216,000 were struck at Birmingham in the year 1831, designed for the Mexican market. Similar medals are worn by nearly nine-tenths of the population of Northern Mexico. On one side, as will be seen, the Virgin is represented in her star-spangled robe, supported by a cherub and the moon under her feet: a design, which, it has been suggested, was most probably drawn from Revelation xii. 1. The date, "A. 1805," is that perhaps of some one of the innumerable miracles, which, according to fame in Mexico, have been wrought by the Virgin Guadalupe. The motto, "_Non fecit taliter omni nationi_" (She "hath not dealt so with any nation") which is found on the reverse of the medal, is extracted from Psalm cxlvii. 20.--GREGG. [15] This story is apochryphal, since the pueblo was besieged neither during the revolt of 1680 nor that of 1696. The pueblo of San Felipe is of Queres origin, and was known in the seventeenth century. Its first friar was Cristobal Quiñones, who died in 1609. The pueblo was faithful to the Spanish, its people killing none of that nation during the revolt. It now occupied its fourth site in Sandoval County, at the foot of a mesa which is crowned with the ruins of an earlier site. It is the southernmost pueblo of Queres stock, and had (1903) a population of five hundred and sixteen.--ED. [16] The Parroquia, or cathedral of Santa Fé, stands upon the site of, and partially incorporates the early building of 1627. It is built of light brown stone, and flanked by two bell towers.--ED. [17] Tomé is a town on the east bank of the Rio Grande, some distance below Albuquerque. It was at one time the seat of Valencia County, and in 1900 had a population of about eight hundred.--ED. CHAPTER XIV The Pueblos -- Their Character for Sobriety, Honesty, and Industry -- Traditional Descent from Montezuma -- Their Languages -- Former and present Population -- The Pueblo of Pecos -- Singular Habits of that ill-fated Tribe -- Curious Tradition -- Montezuma and the Sun -- Legend of a Serpent -- Religion and Government -- Secret Council -- Laws and Customs -- Excellent Provisions against Demoralization -- Primitive Pastimes of the Pueblos -- Their Architecture -- Singular Structures of Taos, and other novel Fortifications -- Primitive state of the Arts among the Pueblos -- Style of Dress, Weapons, etc. -- Their Diet -- The _Guayave_. Allusion has so frequently been made to the aboriginal tribes of New Mexico, known as _Los Pueblos_, that I think I shall not be trespassing too much upon the patience of the reader, in glancing rapidly at some of the more conspicuous features of their national habits and character.