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12 • Going up the same river1 seven leagues, the Tiwa nation begins. With fifteen or sixteen pueblos in a district of twelve or thirteen leagues, in which there are seven thousand souls breathing, all baptized, there are two friaries. These are those of San Francisco de Sandía and San Antonio de la Isleta, where there are schools of reading and writing, singing, and the playing of multiple instruments . The students are well taught, with a good deal of interest in polite society. There are these two friaries and their associated singular and quite costly churches, full of the great compassion and spirit of the clerics who founded them. And all the other pueblos also have their own remarkable churches. 6. TheTiwaNation ...

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