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so that be was brought before the general, whom he gave to understand 

 that the devil had told him that if he would kill the general, he could 

 marry his wile. Dona Beatris, and would receive great wealth and other 

 very tine things. Friar Marcos of Nice, preached several sermons on 

 this, layingit all to the tact that the devil was jealous of the good which 

 must result from this journey and so wished to break it up in this way. 

 it did not end here, but the friars who were in the expedition wrote to 

 their convents about it, and this was the reason the pulpits of Mexico 

 proclaimed strange rumors about this affair. 



The geneual ordered Truxillo to stay in that town and not to go on 

 the expedition, which was what he was after when he made up that 

 falsehood, judging from what afterward appeared to be the truth. The 

 general started off with the force already described to continue his 

 journey, and the army followed him, as will be related. 



Chapter 9, of how the army started from Culiacanand the arrival of the 

 general at Cibola and of the army atSenora and of other things thathap- 



P< nt (I. 



The general, as has beeu said, started to continue his journey from 

 the valley of Guliacan somewhat lightly ecpiipped, taking with him the 

 friars, since none of them wished to stay behind with the army. After 

 they had gone three days, a regular friar who could say mass, named 

 Friar Antonio Victoria, broke his leg, and they brought him back from 

 the camp to have it doctored. He stayed with the army after this, 

 which was no slight consolation for all. The general and his force 

 crossed the country without trouble, as they found everything peaceful, 

 because the Indians knew Friar Marcos and some of the others who had 

 been with Melchior Diaz when he went with Juan de Saldibar to inves- 

 tigate. After the general had crossed the inhabited region and came 

 to Chichilticalli, where the wilderness begins, and saw nothing favor- 

 able, he could not help feeling somewhat downhearted, for, although 

 the reports were very line about what was ahead, there was nobody who 

 hail seen it except the Indians who went with the negro, and these had 

 already been caught in some lies. Besides all this, he was much affected 

 by seeing that the fame of Chichilticalli was summed up in oue tumble- 

 down house without any roof, although it appeared to have beeu a 

 strong place at some former time when it was inhabited, and it was very 

 plain that it had been built by a civilized and warlike race of strangers 

 who had come from a distance. This building was made of red earth. 

 From here they went on through the wilderness, and in fifteen days 

 came to a river about 8 leagues from Cibola, which they called Bed 

 river, 1 because its waters were muddy and reddish. In this river they 

 found mullets like those of Spain. The first Indians from that country 

 were seen here — two of them, who ran away to give the news. During 



'Bandolier, in his Grilded M:m, identifies (lii* with Zufii river. The RioVermejo of Jftramillo is 

 tin- Link- Colorado or < Colorado Cbiquito. 



