winship] TRANSLATION OF CASTANEDA 503 



to his army, leaving Cicuye at peace, ill the hope of getting back their 

 captain Whiskers. 



After the siege was ended, as we have already related, lie sent a 

 captain to Chia, a tine village with many people, which had sent to 

 offer its submission. It was 4 leagues distant to the west of the river. 

 They found it peaceful and gave it four bronze cannon, which were in 

 poor condition, to take care of. Six gentlemen also went to Quirix, a 

 province with seven villages. At the first village, which had about a 

 hundred inhabitants, the natives tied, not daring to wait for our men; 

 but they headed them off by a short cut, riding at full speed, and then 

 they returned to their houses in the village in perfect safety, and then 

 told the other villagers about it and reassured them. In this way the 

 entire region was reassured, little by little, by the time the ice in the 

 river was broken up and it became possible to ford the river and so to 

 continue the journey. The twelve villages of Tiguex, however, were 

 not repopulated at all during the time the army was there, in spite of 

 every promise of security that could possibly be given to them. 



And when the river, which for almost four months had been frozen 

 over so that they crossed the ice on horseback, had thawed out, orders 

 were given for the start for Quivira, where the Turk said there was some 

 gold and silver, although not so much as in Arche and the Guaes. 

 There were already some in the army who suspected the Turk, because 

 a Spaniard named Servantes, 1 who had charge of him during the siege, 

 solemnly swore that he had seen the Turk talking with the devil in a 

 pitcher of water, and also that while he had him under lock so that no 

 one could speak to him, the Turk had asked him what Christians had 

 been killed by the people at Tiguex. He told him "nobody," and then 

 the Turk answered: "You lie; five Christians are dead, including a 

 captain." And as Cervantes knew that he told the truth, he confessed 

 it so as to find out who had told him about it, and the Turk said he 

 knew it all by himself and that he did not need to have anyone tell him 

 in order to know it. And it was on account of this that he watched him 

 and saw him speaking to the devil in the pitcher, as I have said. 



While all this was going on, preparations were being made to start 

 from Tiguex. At this time people came from Cibola to see the general, 

 and he charged them to take good care of the Spaniards who were 

 coming from Senora with Don Pedro de Tovar. He gave them letters 

 to give to Don Pedro, informing him what he ought to do and how he 

 should go to find the army, and that he would find letters under the 

 crosses which the army would put up along the way. The army left 

 Tiguex on the 5th of May ' and returned to Cicuye, which, as I have said, 

 istwenty-fivemarches, which means leagues, from there, taking Whiskers 

 with them. Arrived there, he gave them their captain, who already 

 went about freely with a guard. The village was very glad to see him, 

 and the people were peaceful and offered food. The governor and 



1 Or Cervantes as Ternanv spells it. 



^Coronatlo says, m bis letter of October 20, tbat be started April 23. 



