488 THE CORONADO EXPEDITION, 1540-1542 [eth.akn.14 



province about the provinces that lay around it, and got them to tell 

 their friends and neighbors that Christians had come into the country, 

 whose only desire \vas to be their friends, and to find out about good 

 lands to live in, and for them to come to see the strangers and talk with 

 them. They did this, since they know how to communicate with one 

 another in these regions, and they informed him about a province with 

 seven villages of the same sort as theirs, although somewhat different. 

 They had nothing to do with these people. This province is called 

 Tusayan. It is twenty-live leagues from Cibola. The villages are high 

 and the people are warlike. 



The general had sent Don Pedro de Tovar to these villages with 

 seventeen horsemen and three or four foot soldiers. Juan de Padilla, a 

 Franciscan friar, who had been a fighting man in his youth, went with 

 them. When they reached the region, they entered the country so 

 quietly that nobody observed them, because there were no settlements 

 or farms between one village and another and the people do not leave 

 the villages except to go to their farms, especially at this time, when 

 they had heard that Cibola had been captured by very tierce people, 

 who traveled on animals which ate people. This information was gen- 

 erally believed by those who had never seen horses, although it was so 

 strange as to cause much wonder. Our men arrived after nightfall 

 and were able to conceal themselves under the edge of the village, 

 where they heard the natives talking in their houses. But in the morn- 

 ing they were discovered and drew up in regular order, while the 

 natives came out to meet them, with bows, and shields, and wooden 

 clubs, drawn up in lines without any confusion. The interpreter was 

 given a chance to speak to them and give them due warning, for they 

 were very intelligent people, but nevertheless they drew lines and 

 insisted that our men should not go across these lines toward their 

 village. 1 While they were talking, some men acted as if they would 

 cross the lines, and one of the natives lost control of himself and struck 

 a horse a blow on the (heck of the bridle with his club. Friar Juan, 

 fretted by the time that was being wasted in talking with them, said 

 to the captain: "To tell the truth, I do not know why we came here." 

 When the men heard this, they gave the Santiago so suddenly that 

 they ran down many Indians and the others tied to the town in confu- 

 sion. Some indeed did not have a chance to do this, so quickly did 

 the people in the village come out with presents, asking for peace. 2 The 

 captain ordered his force to collect, and, as the natives did not do any 

 more harm, he and those who were with him found a place to establish 

 their headquarters near the village. They had dismounted here when 

 the natives came peacefully, saying that they had come to give in the 

 submission of the whole province and that they wanted him to be 

 friends with them and to accept the presents which they gave him. 



■ Compare the lines which the Hopi or M Ki Indiana still mark with sacred meal during their festi- 

 vals, as descrihed l\\ Dr IVw krs in his "Few Summer Ceremonials," in vol. ii of the Journal of 

 Ani.vNMii Ethnology and Archseology. 



'Compare the Spanish text. 



