DISCOVERY OF NEW MEXICO a.d. 



1581-83. 

 province our men found many idols which they wor- 

 shipped, and particularly they had in every house an 

 Oratory for the divell, whereinto they ordinarily cary 

 him meat : and another thing they found, that as it is an 

 use among the Christians to erect crosses upon the high 

 wayes, so have this people certaine high chapels, in which 

 they say the divell useth to take his ease, and to recreat 

 himselfe as he travelleth from one towne to another ; 

 which chapels are marvellously well trimmed and painted. 

 In all their arable grounds, whereof they have great 

 plenty, they erect on the one side a little cottage or shed 

 standing upon foure studdes, under which the labourers 

 do eat, and passe away the heat of the day, for they are 

 a people much given to labour, and doe continually 

 occupy themselves therein. This countrey is full of T'hese high 



mountaines and forrests of Pine trees. The weapons ^^'^'^^^^^^^^[^ 

 . , 1 1 , , , ^ . . a came of the 



that they use are strong bowes and arrowes headed with coldnes of the 



flints, which will pierce thorow a coat of male, and countrey, 



macanas which are clubs of halfe a yard long, so beset 



with sharpe flints, that they are sufficient to cleave a man 



asunder in the midst : they use also a kinde of targets 



made of raw hides. 



Having remained foure dayes in this province, not The provmce 



farre oiF they came to another called The province of ^f^iguas. 



Tiguas conteining sixteene townes, in one whereof, called 



Poala, they understood that the inhabitants had slaine the Poala, 



two fathers aforesayd, to wit, frier Francis Lopez, and 



frier Augustus Ruyz, whom they went to seeke, together 



with the three Indian boyes, and the mestizo. So soone 



as the people of this towne and their neighbours saw our 



men there, their owne consciences accusing them, and 



fearing that our men came to punish them, and to be 



avenged of the death of the foresaid fathers, they durst 



not abide their comming, but leaving their houses desolate 



they fled to the mountaines next adjoyning, from whence 



they could never cause them to descend, although our 



men attempted the same by divers devises and entise- 



ments. They found in the townes and houses good store 



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