A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1540. 



white, and went all covered : and that every day many 



Indians wayted at the gate of their governor to serve 



Turqueses In him, & that they did weare many Azure or blew stones, 



Cevola. which were digged out of a rocke of stone, and that they had 



but one wife, with whom they were maried, and that when 



their governors died, all the goods that they had were buried 



with them. And likewise all the while they eate, many 



[III. 433.] of their men waite at their table to court them, and see 



them eate, and they eate with napkins, and that they 



have bathes. On thursday morning at breake of day 



the Indians came with the like cry to the banke of the 



river, and with greater desire to serve us, bringing me 



meat to eat, and making me the like good cheere, 



which the others had done unto me, having understood 



what I was : & I gave them crosses, with the self 



same order which I did unto the former. And going 



farther up the river, I came to a country where I 



found better government : for the inhabitants are wholy 



obedient unto one only. But returning againe to con- 



ferre with mine interpreter touching the dwellings of 



those of Cevola, he tolde me, that the lord of that 



countrey had a dog like that which I caried with me. 



Afterward when I called for dinner, this interpreter saw 



certaine dishes caried in the first and later service, 



whereupon he told me that the lord of Cevola had 



also such as those were, but that they were greene, and 



that none other had of them saving their governour, 



and that they were 4. which he had gotten together 



This was the with that dogge, and other things, of a blacke man 



Negro that which had a beard, but that he knew not from what 



Frier Marco ^^^^ter he came thither, and that the king caused him 



de Niza. afterward to be killed, as he heard say. I asked him 



whether he knew of any towne that was neere unto 



that place : he tolde me that above the river he knew 



some, & that among the rest there was a lord of a 



Quicoma. towne called Quicoma, and another of a towne called 



Coama. Coama : and that they had great store of people under 



them. And after he had given me this information, he 



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