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returned in good order without losing a man, until be died, and after 

 that they were relieved of the greatest difficulty. When they reached 

 Sen" or a, Alcaraz dispatched the messengers already referred to, so that 

 the general might know of this and also that some of the soldiers were 

 ill disposed and had caused several mutinies, and that he had sen- 

 tenced two of them to the gallows, but they had afterward escaped 

 from the prison. 



When the general learned this, he sent Don Pedro de Tovar to that 

 city to sift out some of the men. He was accompanied by messengers 

 whom the general sent to Don Antonio de Mendoza the viceroy, with an 

 account of what had occurred and with the good news given by the 

 Turk. When Don Pedro de Tovar arrived there, he found that the 

 natives of that province had killed a soldier with a poisoned arrow, 

 which had made only a very little wound in one hand. Several soldiers 

 went to the place where this happened to see about it, and they were 

 not very well received. Don Pedro de Tovar sent Diego de Alcaraz 

 with a force to seize the chiefs and lords of a village in what they call 

 the Valley of Knaves (de los Vellacos), which is in the hills. After 

 getting there and taking these men prisoners, Diego de Alcaraz decided 

 to let them go in exchange for some thread and cloth and other things 

 which the soldiers needed. Finding themselves free, they renewed 

 the war and attacked them, and as they were strong and had poison, 

 they killed several Spaniards and wounded others so that they died 

 on the way back. They retired toward the town, and if they had not 

 had Indian allies from the country of the Hearts, it would have gone 

 worse with them. They got back to the town, leaving 17 soldiers dead 

 from the poison. They would die in agony from only a small wound, 

 the bodies breaking out with au insupportable pestilential stink. When 

 Don Pedro de Tovar saw the harm done, aud as it seemed to them that 

 they could not safely stay in that city, he moved 40 leagues toward 

 Cibola into the valley of Suya, where we will leave them, in order to 

 relate what happened to the general aud his army after the siege of 

 Tiguex. 



Chapter 18, of how the general managed to leave the country in peace so 

 as to go in search of Quivira, where the Turk said there was the most 

 wealth. 



During the siege of Tiguex the general decided to go to Cicuye and 

 take the governor with him, in order to give him his liberty and to 

 promise them that he would give Whiskers his liberty aud leave him 

 in the village, as soon as he should start for Quivira. He was received 

 peacefully when he reached Cicuye, and entered the village with several 

 soldiers. They received their governor with much joy and gratitude. 

 After looking over the village and speaking with the uati ves ' he returned 



'Compare the Spanish text. Ternaus: "Le general le retablit daus *a di^uite, examiua le pays- et 

 retourna au camp." 



