^"^igif"^^] Wright, Early Records of the Wild Turkey. 347 



in the Said Citie (Mexico),. .. .quailes, Guiny-cockes, and such 

 like, all are very good cheape." Also in St. Domingo, "they have 

 a good store of Guiny cocks and Guinyhens." In "a relation of 

 the commodities of Nova Hispania" Henry Hawks, 1572 holds ^ 

 "This city (Mexico) is very well provided .... with .... victuals, 

 as ... . Guiny -cocks and hennes . . . . " In the " History of the New 

 World," Girolama Benzoni of Milan writes^ "Two things are 

 produced in this country v/hich are not found elsewhere in India, 

 except in the territories of Guatimala, of cape Fonduri, and Mexico 

 and along the shores of New Spain. One is a species of peacock 

 that has been brought to Europe, and commonly called the Indian 

 fowls." In a footnote appears the following comment: "We 

 call them turkeys; but in Italy they are still distinguished as galli 

 d'lndia." 



Eighteen years after the completion (1521) of the conquest of 

 Mexico, explorations in northern Mexico and southwestern United 

 States become pronounced. Purchas in "The Voyage of Frier 

 Marco de Nica. . . . into New Mexico and the adjoining lands, 1539- 

 1595" says,^ they "have. . . . ; great Guinee Cockes"; "A Letter of 

 Francis Vazquez de Coronado. . . . 1539" remarks,* "the great store 

 of Hennes of the Countrey." A relation (1540) of the same gentle- 

 man says, ^ " Wee founde heere Guinie cockes but fewe. The 

 Indians tell mee in all these seven cities, that they eate them not, 

 but that they keepe them onely for their feathers. I believe them 

 not, for they are excellent good, and greater then those of Mexico." 

 Of this same journey, Winship's translation gives more pertinent 

 notes. Near Bernalillo,^ "They (Indians) made a present of a 

 large number of (turkey) cocks with very big wattles, etc." Again, 

 "there are a great many native fowl in these provinces (among 

 Tigeux Indians especially) and cocks with great hanging chins. 

 When dead, these keep for sixty days, and longer in winter, without 



1 Hakluyt, R. Vol. IX, p. 380. 



2 Benzoni, G. Venice, 1572. Transl. W. H. Smith. Hakl. Soc. London, 1858, 

 p. 148, 149. 



3 Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes. Glasgow, 1905-1907. 

 Hakl. Soc, Extra Series. Vol. XVIII, p. 54. 



i Hakluyt, R. IX, p. 119. 



5 Ibid., p. 156. 



6 Winsliip, G. P. The .loiu-ney of Coronado 1540-1542. New York, 1904, 

 pp. 40, 90, 99, 100, 153, 200. 



