DISCOVERY OF NEW MEXICO ad. 



1581-83. 

 called Rio del Norte, which he did accordingly. And 

 having traveiled about 60. leagues toward the province 60. Leagues. 

 of the Quires aforesaid, 1 2 leagues from thence toward 

 the Orient or East they found a province of Indians 

 called Hubates, who received them peaceably, and gave Hubates. 

 them great store of victuals, informing them also of 

 very rich Mines which they found, whereout they got ^^p' ^'^'^h 

 glistering & good metal, and therewith returned to the ^^^^■^• 

 towne from whence they came. This province contained 

 by their estimation 25000. persons all very well apparel- 

 led in coloured mantles of cotton, and Chamois-skins 

 very well dressed. They have many mountaines full 

 of Pines and Cedars, and the houses of their townes are Houses 0/^. 

 of 4. and 5. stories high. Here they had notice of ^-nd five stories 

 another province distant about one dayes journey from ^^ ' 

 thence inhabited by certaine Indians called Tamos, and Tamos. 

 containing above 40000. soules : whither being come the 

 inhabitants would neither give them any victuals, nor 

 admit them into their townes : for which cause, and in 

 regard of the danger wherein they were, and because 

 some of the souldiers were not well at ease, and for that 

 they were so fewe (as we have said) they determined Thelrretume. 

 to depart thence, and to returne toward the land of the 

 Christians, which they put in execution in the beginning 

 of July 1583, being guided by an Indian that went with 

 them, who led them another way then they went forth by, 

 downe a river, which they called Rio de las vacas ; that ^^'^ de las 

 is to say. The river of oxen, in respect of the great ''^'^'^^^' 

 multitudes of oxen or kine that fed upon the bankes 

 thereof, by the which they traveiled for the space of 

 120. leagues, still meeting with store of the said cattell. no. Leagues. 

 From hence they went forward to the river of Conchos 

 by which they entered, and thence to the valley of S. 

 Bartholomew, from whence they first entered into their 

 discoverie. Upon their comming thither they found that 

 the said Frier Bernardin Beltran and his company were 

 safely arrived at the said towne many dayes before, & 

 were gone from thence to the towne of Guadiana. In Guadiana. 



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