wi.NsTiip] TRANSLATION OF CASTANEDA 483 



the night following the next day, about 2 leagues from the village, some 

 Indians in a safe place yelled so that, although the men were ready for 

 anything, some were so excited that they put their saddles on hind-side 

 before; but these were the new fellows. When the veterans had 

 mounted and ridden round the camp, the Indians fled. None of them 

 could be caught because they knew the country. 



The next day they entered the settled country in good order, and 

 when they saw the first village, which was Cibola, such were the curses 

 that some hurled at Friar Marcos that I pray God may protect him 

 from tli em. 



It is a little, unattractive village, looking as if it had been crumpled all 

 up together. There are mansions in New Spain which make a better 

 appearance at a distance. 1 It is a village of about 200 warriors, is 

 three and lour stories high, with the houses small and having only a lew 

 rooms, and without a courtyard. One yard serves for each section. 

 The people of the whole district had collected here, for there are seven 

 villages in the province, and some of the others are even larger and 

 stronger than Cibola. These folks waited for the army, drawn up by 

 divisions in front of the village. When they refused to have peace on 

 the terms the interpreters extended to them, but appeared defiant, the 

 Santiago- was given, and they were at once put to flight. The .Span- 

 iards then attacked the village, which was taken with not a little diffi- 

 culty, since they held the narrow and crooked entrance. During the 

 attack they knocked the general down with a large stone, and would 

 have killed him but for Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas and Hernando 

 de Alvarado, who threw themselves above him and drew him away, 

 receiving the blows of the stones, which were not few. But the first 

 fury of the Spaniards could not be resisted, and in less than an hour 

 they entered the village and captured it. They discovered food there, 

 which was the thing they were most in need of. 3 After this the whole 

 province was at peace. 4 



'Mota Padilla, p. 113: "They reached Tzibola, which was a village divided into two parts, which were 

 encircled in such a way aw to make the village round, and the houses adjoining three and four stories 

 high, with doors opening on a great court or plaza, leaving one or two doors in the wall, so as to go 

 in and out. In the middle of the plaza there is a hatchway or trapdoor, by which they go down to t 

 subterranean hall, the roof of which was of large pine beams, and a little hearth in the floor, and the 

 walls plastered. The Indian men stayed there days and nights playing (or gaming) and the women 

 brought them food ; and this was the way the Indians of the neighboring villages lived." 



'The war cry or "loud invocation addressed to Saint James before engaging in battle with the Infi- 

 dels."— Captain John Stevens' Dictionary. 



'Compare the translation of the Trasladode las Nuevaa herein. There are some striking resem- 

 blances between that account and Castaueda'e narrative. 



4 Gomara, Hist. Indias, cap. coxiii, ed. 15.14 : " Llegando a Sibola reqnirieron a los del pueblo que los 

 recibiessen de paz; ca no yuan a les hazer mal, sino muy gran bien, y pronecho, y que les diesaen 

 oomida, ca Uenauan falta de ella. Ellos respondieron que no querian, pnea yuan armados, y en son de 

 les dar guerra : que tal semblante mostrauan. Assi que cobatieron el pueblo los nuestros, defendieron 

 lo gran rato ochoeientos homhres, que dentro estauan: descalabraron a Francisco Vazquez, capitan 

 general del exercito, y a otros muchos Espaholes : mas al cabo se salieron huyendo. Entraron los nue- 

 stros y nombraron la Granada, por amor del virrey, q es natural dela de Espana. Ks Sibola de hasta 

 dozietas easas de tierra y madera tosca, altas quatro y cinco sobrados, y las puertas como escotillones 

 de nao, suben a ellos con eacaleraa de palo, que quitan de noche y en tiempos de guerra. Tiene delante 

 cada casa una cueua, donde como en estufa, 86 recogen los inuiernos, que son largas, y de muchas 



