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there were other towns down the river. These people were peaceful. 

 The villages are terraced, like those at Tiguex, and of the same style. 

 The general went up the river from here, visiting the whole province, 

 until he reached Tiguex, where he found Hernando de Alvarado and 

 the Turk. He felt no slight joy at such good news, because the Turk 

 said that in his country there was a river in the level country which 

 was 2 leagues wide, in which there were fishes as big as horses, and 

 large numbers of very big canoes, with more than 20 rowers on a side, 

 and that they carried sails, and that their lords sat on the poop under 

 awnings, and on the prow they had a great golden eagle. He said also 

 that the lord of that country took his afternoon nap under a great tree 

 on which were hung a great number of little gold bells, which put him 

 to sleep as they swung in the air. He said also that everyone had 

 their ordinary dishes made of wrought plate, and the jugs and bowls 

 were of gold. He called gold acochis. For the present he was be- 

 lieved, on account of the ease with which he told it and because they 

 showed him metal ornaments and he recognized them and said they 

 were not gold, and he knew gold and silver very well and did not care 

 anything about other metals. 



The general sent Hernando de Alvarado back to Cicuye to demand 

 some gold bracelets which this Turk said they had taken from him at 

 the time they captured him. Alvarado went, and was received as a 

 friend at the village, and when he demanded the bracelets they said 

 they knew nothing at all about them, saying the Turk was deceiving 

 him and was lying. Captain Alvarado, seeing that there were no other 

 means, gotthe captain Whiskers and the governor to come to his tent, and 

 when they had come he put them in chains. The villagers prepared to 

 fight, and let fly their arrows, denouncing Hernando de Alvarado, and 

 saying that he was a man who had no respect for peace and friendship. 

 Hernando de Alvarado started back to Tiguex, where the general kept 

 them prisoners more than six months. This began the want of confi- 

 dence in the word of the Spaniards whenever there was talk of peace 

 from this time on, as will be seen by what happened afterward. 



Chapter 14, of how the army went from Cibola to Tiguex and /chat 

 happened to them on the way, on account of the xnoic. 



We have already said that when the general started from Cibola, he 

 left orders for Don Tristan de Arellano to start twenty days later. He 

 did so as soon as he saw that th'e men were well rested and provided 

 with food and eager to start off to find their general. He set off with 

 his force toward Tiguex, and the first day they made their camp in the 

 best, largest, and finest village of that (Cibola) province. 1 This is the 

 only village that has houses with seven stories. In this village certain 

 houses are used as fortresses; they are higher than the others and set 



'This was Matsaki, .it tin- in.rl hwestrrn I nine of Thunder mountain, about IS miles from Hawikuh, 

 where the advance force bad encamped. 



