HENRY HAWKS a.d. 



1572. 



They have understanding of another city which they PedroMoraks 

 call Copalla : and in like maner, at my beeing^ in the ^ ^]^ol^^ 

 countrey, they have used much labour and diligence in ^j-ite the like 

 the seeking of it : they have found the lake on which of Copalla. 

 it should stand, and a canoa, the head whereof was 

 wrought with copper curiously, and could not finde nor 

 see any man nor the towne which to their understand- 

 ing should stand on the same water, or very neere the 

 same. 



There is a great number of beasts or kine in the The strange 

 countrey of Cibola, which were never brought thither ^^J^ ^ 

 by the Spanyards, but breed naturally in the countrey. 

 They are like unto our oxen, saving that they have 

 long haire like a lion, and short homes, and they 

 have upon their shoulders a bunch like a camell, which 

 is higher then the rest of their body. They are marvellous 

 wild and swift in running. They call them the beasts 

 or kine of Cibola. 



This Cibola is a city which the Spanyards found Cibola aban- 

 now of late, without any people in the same, goodly ^°^^^- 

 bnildings, faire chimneys, windowes made of stone & 

 timber excellently wrought, faire welles with wheeles 

 to draw their water, and a place where they had buried 

 their dead people, with many faire stones upon the 

 graves. And the captaine would not suffer his souldiers 

 to breake up any part of these graves, saying, he would 

 come another time to do it. 



They asked certeine people which they met, whither 

 the people of this city were gone : and they made 

 answere, they were gone downe a river, which was ^ gf^^t river 

 there by, very great, and there had builded a city 

 which was more for their commodity. 



This captaine lacking things necessary for himselfe 

 and his men, was faine to returne backe againe, without 

 finding any treasure according to his expectation : neither 

 found they but fewe people, although they found beaten 

 wayes, which had beene much haunted and frequented. 

 The captaine at his comming backe againe, had a great 



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nere Cibola. 



