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sent the hitter back toCicuye, where he took the captain Whiskers and 

 the governor of the village, who was an old man, prisoners. The people 

 of Tiguex did not (eel well about this seizure. In addition to this, the 

 general wished to obtain some clothing to divide among his soldiers, 

 and for this purpose he summoned one of the chief Indians of Tiguex, 

 with whom he had already had much intercourse and with whom he 

 was on good terms, who was called Juan Aleman by our men, after 

 a Juan Aleman 1 who lived in Mexico, whom he was said to resemble. 

 The general told him that lie must furnish about three hundred or more 

 pieces of cloth, which he needed to give his people. He said that he 

 was not able to do this, but that it pertained to the governors; and that 

 besides this, they would have to consult together and divide it among 

 the villages, and that it was necessary to make the demand of each 

 town separately. The general did this, and ordered certain of the 

 gentlemen who were with him to go and make the demand ; and as 

 there were twelve villages, some of them went on one side of the river 

 and some on the other. As they were in very great need, they did 

 not give the natives a chance to consult about it, but when they came 

 to a village they demanded what they had to give, so that they could 

 proceed at once. Thus these people could do nothing except take off 

 their own cloaks and give them to make up the number demanded of 

 them. And some of the soldiers who were in these parties, when the 

 collectors gave them some blankets or cloaks which were not such 

 as they wanted, it they saw any Indian with a better one on, they 

 exchanged with him without more ado, not stopping to find out the 

 rank of the man they were stripping, which caused not a little hard 

 feeling. 



Besides what I have just said, one whom I will not name, out of regard 

 for him, left the village where t lie camp was and went to another village 

 about a league distant, and seeing a pretty woman there he called her 

 husband down to hold his horse by the bridle while he went up; and 

 as the village was entered by the upper story, the Indian supposed he 

 was going to some other part of it. While he was there the Indian 

 heard some slight noise, and then the Spaniard came down, took his 

 horse, and went away. The Indian went up and learned that he had 

 violated, or tried to violate, his wife, and so he came with the important 

 men of the town to complain that a man had violated his wife, and he 

 told how it happened. When the general made all the soldiers and the 

 persons who were with him come together, the Indian did not recognize 

 the man, either because he had changed his clothes or for whatever 

 other reason there may have been, but he said that he could tell the 

 horse, because he had held his bridle, and so he was taken to the 

 stables, and found the horse, and said that the master of the horse 

 must be the man. He denied doing it, seeing that he had not been 

 recognized, and it may be that the Indian was mistaken in the horse; 



1 Dutch J;u'k, perhaps. 



