WHOLE VOL. THE WEST INDIES — VAZQUEZ DE ESPINOSA I99 



tolome on November 10, 1582. Two days later on this northerly 

 route he reached the Province of the Conchos, thickly settled with 

 many villages, and abounding in corn and other cereals, vegetables 

 and pumpkins, with quantities of game — deer, hares, and rabbits. 

 They have very good melons there, and abundance of fish in the 

 streams. These Indians have bows and arrows for weapons ; they 

 received them peaceably ; they are governed by caciques. These Indians 

 guided them 24 leagues through their own province up to that of 

 the Pasuguates, who are in every respect like the preceding tribe. 

 The neighboring province is that of the Tobosos. They all received 

 them amicably and rendered them service. 



560. Twelve leagues farther on is the Province of the Jumanos, 

 otherwise called Patarabuies, with large settlements and the houses 

 built of stone and mortar with flat roofs ; it abounds in corn and 

 other cereals and fruits. These Indians are more intelligent and 

 better governed than the preceding, although they are tattooed on 

 their breasts, legs, and arms. They have abundance of meat — hares, 

 rabbits, deer, and other animals and fowl — and in the rivers running 

 into the Atlantic there are plenty of fish. There are salt lakes in this 

 province, from which they make excellent salt. They are a warlike 

 tribe. The great majority of the villages in this province lie on one 

 bank or the other of a mighty river. The people all wear clothing 

 made of cotton and antelope skins. They had knowledge of God, 

 whom they call Apolito ; they had crosses and paid them great rev- 

 erence. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca had been in this province 

 when he came through from Florida, and so all the Indian women 

 brought their children for the friar to bless them and sprinkle holy 

 water upon them, and the sick came with great faith to implore the 

 priest's benediction. The country produces abundance of corn and 

 other foodstuffs ; they have excellent antelope skins and make other 

 elaborate works of art. Twelve leagues ofif there is another large 

 settlement in which they weave excellent striped rugs and work up 

 and decorate very good antelope skins. Twenty-two leagues away, 

 through settlements of this same tribe, there are rich silver mines, 

 to the W. of this province. 



561. Along the same route there is another province, more thickly 

 settled than the last, where there are many lakes abounding in fish ; 

 the people are very intelligent. At 15 days' journey to the W. there 

 is a very large lake with many villages along its entire circumference ; 

 these have houses two or three stories high ; the people are intelligent 

 and well governed ; they wear cotton clothing and antelope skins. 

 The country has a marvelous climate, with abundance of foodstuffs 



