fronting on the main plaza. In the rear of this was situated the third court, occupied by the quarters of the palace guard. A series of spacious apartments also fronted on the plazuela del Volador; and besides the mint, a separate building within the palace walls, there was an extensive garden for the recreation of the viceroys.[1]
Though the scarcity of grain continued during the three following years, it was only in a slight degree and for brief periods; but in 1696 the danger of famine was so great that another outbreak was threatened, and was prevented only by the most energetic measures.[2]
During Galve's rule the province of New Mexico was reconquered after a series of attempts extending over a period of nearly fourteen years. In August 1680 this territory was the scene of the most serious revolt that had occurred since the conquest of Mexico. All was arranged for a given day throughout the territory. Four hundred Spaniards, including twenty five Franciscan friars, were slaughtered by the natives, and the survivors compelled to abandon the province. During subsequent years numerous expeditions were sent out by the successive governors to reoccupy it, but notwithstanding the quarrels among themselves the natives successfully resisted all attempts to subjugate them until 1694.
In 1692 an expedition recaptured without blood-
- ↑ Estrella, xxvi. 264—7, 278-9.
- ↑ Robles, Diario, ii. 130-71. Cavo, Tres Siglos, ii. 84-5, states that in 1694, owing to the great scarcity, an epidemic appeared which carried off thousands of the people. Lorenzana, Hist. N. Spain, 28, and Panes, Vireyes, MS., also speak of a pestilence in this year, which they imply was a divine punishment visited on the rioters. I am disposed to reject these statements; for Robles, whose Diario is a diary of the important events of this period, makes no mention of any pestilence between 1692 and 1696, excepting an epidemic in a convent of the capital which in April 1695 carried off six nuns. An epidemic of measles appeared in the city of Puebla in September 1692, and in one parish alone carried off 3,000 children. Robles, Diario, ii. 110; Rivera, Diario. 75. This latter authority calls this event 'a horrible pestilence, . . . attributed to the prohibition of pulque.' Carlos María Bustamante was the editor of this work, as also that of Cavo, Tres Siglos, both of which contain many interpolations, and the connection between the above absurd
