<P> More late, to three days of his arrived, Otermin obtained the degree of lieutenant governor . On September 13, the number of refugees from Santa Fe overtook those from Isleta . Now, the insurgent population was already very large for fight against the Puebloans . Still, on that day, Otermin, being barricaded in the Palace of the Governors and believing that in northern New Mexico already all settlers had been killed by the Puebloans and he did not feel safe in the Isleta (although in reality the settlers of Santa Fe were alive and continued to resist the attacks of Puebloans), called for a general retreat . He and the Fray Cristobal ordered to people of Isleta emigrate from New Mexico and on September 21 the Spanish settlers leave the capital city and headed to El Paso del Norte (current Ciudad Juárez), in order to plan the reconquer New Mexico . Five days later the settlers arrived to Salinetas, north of El Paso del Norte . Here lived up until the first week of October . At La Salineta was organized a meeting, so the number of persons accompanying to Otermin were (a least), 1,946 . It was also decided to delay the re-conquest New Mexico, until the colonists do get the help of the viceroy and the advance of the group of people who were with Otermin at the Guadalupe mission, because of the dangers that had in El Paso del Norte . Thus, by October 9 the refugees already had arrived to two leagues downriver from the Guadalupe mission . </P> <P> On September 16 came a group Queres warriors from Cochiti and Santo Domingo led by mestizo Alonso de Catiti, whose brother was with the defenders of the governor's house in Santa Fe, New Mexico . He informed to the Spanish that the attackers of Santa Fe were 2,500 people and the city could not withstand their attacks . Otermin then blocked the Casa Real (Royal House), cutting the water supply, so the women and children, after exhausting their supplies in a few days, began to die of thirst . Because to that Otermin could not stand it any more, on August 21, he arranged the execution of 47 prisoners that he had captured in the combats and arranged a general exit to break the fence of the city . They succeeded it and in February, Otermin and his army went to El Paso (in the present Texas), along to many of the inhabitants of Isleta, while the others settlers fled to south and interior of Parral, Chihuahua and west into Sonora . New Mexico was already in hard of Puebloans . </P> <P> In November 1681 Otermin attempted to return to New Mexico, burning both Isleta Pueblo (which had not taken part in the revolt) and Sandia Pueblo . He returned to modern Isleta del Sur, near El Paso, with some prisoners, but little else . </P> <P> In Isleta Pueblo, the settlers were attacked by the Puebloans, but they were defeated . So Otermin held a ceremony in which he re-established the Spanish power in the region and spared the natives for their actions . Otermin also gave large amounts of corn of local inhabitants, as was claimed by them, although gave scarce amounts in the Isleta . </P>

Don antonio de otermin letter on the pueblo revolt