wimship] TKANSLATION OF CASTANEDA 487 



To relate bow the army that was ou its way to Cibola got on : Every- 

 thing- went along in good shape, since the general bad left everything 

 peaceful, because he wished the people in that region to be contented 

 and without Tear and willing to do what they were ordered. In a 

 province called Vacapau there was a large quantity of prickly pears, of 

 which the natives make a great deal of preserves. 1 They gave this 

 preserve away freely, and as the men of the army ate much of it, they 

 all fell sick with a headache and fever, so that the natives might have 

 done much harm to the force if they had wished. This lasted regu- 

 larly twenty-tour hours. After tliis they continued their march until 

 they reached Ohichilticalli. The men in the advance guard saw a Hock 

 of sheep one day alter leaving this place. I myself saw and followed 

 them. They had extremely large bodies and long wool; their horns 

 were very thick and large, and when they run they throw back their 

 heads and put their horns on the ridge of their back. They are used to 

 the rough country, so that we could not catch them and had to leave 

 them.- 



Three days after we entered the wilderness we found a horn on the 

 bank of a river that flows in the bottom of a very steep, deep gully, 

 which the general had noticed and left there for his army to see, for it 

 was six feet long and as thick at the base as a man's thigh. It seemed 

 to be more like the horn of a goat than of any other animal. It was 

 something worth seeing. The army proceeded and was about a day's 

 march from Cibola when a very cold tornado came up in the afternoon, 

 followed by a great fall of snow, which was a bad combination for the 

 carriers. The army went on till it reached some caves in a rocky ridge, 

 late in the evening. The Indian allies, who were from New Spain, and 

 for the most part from warm countries, were in great danger. They 

 felt the coldness of that day so much thai it was hard work the next 

 day taking care of them, for they suffered much pain and had to be 

 carried on the horses, the soldiers walking. After this labor the army 

 reached Cibola, where their general was waiting for them, with their 

 quarters all ready, and here they were reunited, except some captains 

 and men who had gone off to discover other provinces. 



Chapter 11, of how Don Pedro de Tovar discovered Tusayan or Tuta- 

 haco' s and Pan Garcia Lopez de Cardenas saw the Firebrand river and the 

 other things that had happened. 



While the things already described were taking place, Cibola being at 



peace, the General Francisco Vazquez found out from the people of the 

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1 The Zunia make a similar sort of preserves from the fruit of the tuna and the yucca. Sec Gushing 

 in The Millstone, Indianapolis, July, 1884, pp. 108-109. 



'Compare the Spanish text for this whole description. Mota Padilla, sec. xxii, u. p. 113, says: 

 " Chichilticali (que quiere decir easa colorada, per una que estaba en el embarrada eou tierra colorada, 

 que Hainan almagre) j aqui se hallaron pinos con grandes pinas ile pinones muy buenos; ymasade- 

 laute, en la cima de Unas peuas, se hallaron cabezas de carnerosde grandes ouernos, y algunos tlijerou 

 haber visto ties .i cuatro carneros de aquellos, y que eran muy ligeros (de cstos animates se ban 

 vislu en el < 'ata\ que es la Tartaria.) " 



3 Compare chapter 13. These two groups of pueblos w ere not the same. 



