492 THE CORONADO EXPEDITION, 1540-1542 [eth.ahs.M 



They called the Indian '-Turk," because he looked like one. 1 Meanwhile 

 the general had sent Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas to Tiguex with men 

 to get lodgings ready for the army, which had arrived from Sefiora 

 about this time, before taking them there for the winter; and when 

 Hernando de Alvarado reached Tiguex, on his way back from Oicuye, 

 he found Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas there, and so there was no 

 need for him to go farther. As it was necessary that the natives should 

 give the Spaniards lodging places, the people in one village had to 

 abandon it and go to others belonging to their friends, and they took 

 with them nothing but themselves and the clothes they had on. Infor- 

 mation was obtained here about many towns up toward the north, and 

 I believe that it would have been much better to follow this direction 

 than that of the Turk, who was the cause of all the misfortunes which 

 followed. 



Chapter i.v, of how the general /cent toward Tutahaco with a few men 

 and lift the army with Don Tristan, who took it to Tiguex. 



Everything already related had happened when Don Tristan de Are- 

 llano reached Cibola from Sefiora. Soon after he arrived, the general, 

 who had received notice of a province containing eight villages, took 

 30 of the men who were most fully rested and went to see it, going 

 from there directly to Tiguex with the skilled guides who conducted 

 him. lie left orders for Don Tristan de Arellano to proceed to Tiguex 

 by the direct road, after the men had rested twenty days. On this 

 journey, between one day when they left the camping place and mid- 

 day of the third day, when they saw some snow-covered mountains, 

 toward which they went in search of water, neither tin- Spaniards 

 nor the horses nor the servants drank anything. They were able 

 to stand it because of the severe cold, although with great diffi- 

 culty. In eight days they reached Tutahaco,- where they learned that 



'The account which Mota Padilla (cap. xxxii, 5, p. 161) gives of the Turk and his stories is very 

 significant : Alvarado "hallo an indio en aquellos llanos quien Ie ili.je, mas por senas que por voces, ser 

 de una provincia quo distaba treinta soles, la eual se llaniaba Copala, y al indio se le puso por nombre 

 el Turco, por ser muy moreno, apersonado y de huena disposicion ; y les dijotantas cosas de aquella 

 provincia, que los puso en admiracion, y en especial que hahia tanta cantidad de ore, que no solo 

 podian cargarlos cahallos, sino earros; quo habia una laguna en la que navegaban canoas, y que las 

 del cacique tenian argollas de oro; y para que se expliease, le mostraban plata, y deciaque no, sino 

 comounanillo que vio de oro: decia que a su cacique lo saeaban en andas a las guerras, y que euando 

 queria, les qnitaban los bozales a unos lebreles que despedazaban a los enemigos : que tenian una casa 

 niuy grande, adondetodos aeudian & servirle; que en las puertas tenian mantas de algodon." 



Gomara, Indias, cap. ccxiiii, adds some details : " Vieudolapoca gente, y mnestra de riqneza, dieron 

 los soldados muy pocas gracias a los frayles, que conellos yuan, y que loauan aqurtla tierradeSibola: y 

 por no boluer a Mexico sin hazer algo, nilas inanos vazias. acordaronde passar adelante, one lea dezian 

 ser lnejor tierra. Assi que fuoron a Acuco, lugar sobre vn fortissimo pefiol, ydesde alii fne don Garci 

 lopez do Cardenas con su compania de cauallos a la mar, y Francisco Vazquez con los de mas a Tiguex, 

 que est a rihera de vngran rio. Alii tuuierounueuadeAxa, y Quiuira : donde dezian, queestaua vn Key, 

 dicho per nombre Tatarrax, barbudo, canos, y rieo, que cenia vn bracamarte, que rezaua en horas, qne 

 adorana vna eruz de oro, y vna ymagen de muger, Sefiora T>el cielo. Mucho alegro, y sostuuo esta 

 nueua al exercito, aunque algunos la tuuieron por falsa, y echadiza de frayles. Determinaron yr alia 

 con intencion de inueruar en tierra tan rica oomo se sonaua. 11 



2 Coronado probably reached the Rio Grande near the present Isleta. Jaramillo applies tins name 

 to Acoma, and perhaps he is more correct, if ire ought to read it Tutahaio, Bince tin- Tignas (the 

 Inhabitants of Isleta, Sandia, Taos, and Picuris pueblos) call Acoma Tuthea-uay, according to 

 Eaudelier, Gilded Man, p. 211. 



