VASQUEZ DE COROXADO a.d. 



1540. 

 are all called the kingdome of Cibola, and every one Cibola is a 

 of them have their particular name : and none of /"^'f^'/^^^ ^^»- 

 them is called Cibola, but altogether they are called H^^^^f^^^"^^^ 

 Cibola. And this towne which I call a citie, I have 

 named Granada, as well because it is somewhat like 

 unto it, as also in remembrance of your lordship. In 

 this towne where I nowe remaine, there may bee some 

 two hundred houses, all compassed with walles, and I 

 thinke that with the rest of the houses which are not 

 so walled, they may be together five hundred. There Five hundred 

 is another towne neere this, which is one of the seven, houses in 

 & it is somwhat bigger then this, and another of the 

 same bignesse that this is of, and the other foure are 

 somewhat lesse : and I send them all painted unto your A painter ne- 

 lordship with the voyage. And the parchment wherein ^^-^^^^J.^ ^^^^ ^ 

 the picture is, was found here with other parchments. 

 The people of this towne seeme unto me of a reason- 

 able stature, and wittie, yet they seeme not to bee such 

 as they should bee, of that judgement and wit to builde 

 these houses in such sort as they are. For the most 

 part they goe all naked, except their privie partes which 

 are covered : and they have painted mantles like those Painted 

 which I send unto your lordship. They have no cotton ^^^^^^^^ 

 wooll growing, because the countrey is colde, yet they 

 weare mantels thereof as your honour may see by the 

 shewe thereof: and true it is that there was found in 

 their houses certaine yarne made of cotton wooll. They 

 weare their haire on their heads like those of Mexico, 

 and they are well nurtured and condicioned : And they ^^ore ofTur- 

 have Turqueses I thinke good quantitie, which with the ^^^^^^^' 

 rest of the goods which they had, except their corne, they 

 had conveyed away before I came thither : for I found 

 no women there, nor no youth under fifteene yeeres 

 olde, nor no olde folkes above sixtie, saving two or 

 three olde folkes, who stayed behinde to governe all 

 the rest of the youth and men of warre. There were 

 found in a certaine paper two poynts of Emralds, and Emralds. 

 certaine small stones broken which are in colour some- 



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