504 THE CORONADO EXPEDITION, 1540-1542 [eth.ann.H 



Whiskers gave the general a young fellow called Xabe, a native of 

 Quivira, who could give them information about the country. This fel- 

 low said that there was gold and silver, but not so much of it as the 

 Turk had said. The Turk, however, continued to declare that it was 

 as he had said. He went as a guide, and thus the army started off 

 from here. 



Chapter 19, of how they started in search of Quivira and of what 

 happened on the way. 



The army started from Cicuye, leaving the village at peace and, as it 

 seemed, contented, and under obligations to maintain the friendship 

 because their governor and captain had been restored to them. Pro- 

 ceeding toward the plains, which are all on the other side of the moun- 

 t'ains, after four days' journey they came to a river with a large, deep 

 current, which flowed down toward Cicuye, and they named this the 

 Cicuye river. 1 They had to stop here to make a bridge so as to cross it. 

 It was finished in four days, by much diligence and rapid work, and as 

 soon as it was done the whole army and the animals crossed. After 

 ten days more they came to some settlements of people who lived like 

 Arabs and who are called Querechos in that region. They had seen 

 the cows for two days. These folks live in tents made of the tanned 

 skins of the cows. They travel around near the cows, killing them 

 for food. They did nothing unusual when they saw our army, except 

 to come out of their tents to look at us, after which they came to 

 talk with the advance guard, and asked who we were. The general 

 talked with them, but as they had already talked with the Turk, who 

 was with the advance guard, they agreed with what he had said. That 

 they were very intelligent is evident from the fact that although they 

 conversed by means of signs they made themselves understood so well 

 that there was no need of an interpreter. 2 They said that there was a 

 very large river over toward where the sun came from, and that one 

 could go along this river through an inhabited region for ninety days 

 without a break from settlement to settlement. They said that the first 

 of these settlements was called Haxa, and that the river was more than 

 a league wide and that there were many canoes on it. These folks 

 started off from here next day with a lot of dogs which dragged their 

 possessions. For two days, during which the. army marched in the 

 same direction as that in which they had come from the settlements — 

 that is, between north and east, but more toward the north 3 — they saw 



'The Rio Pecos. The bridge, however, was doubtless built across the upper waters of t lie Canadian. 



"There is an elaborate account of the sign hni-'iiage of t lie Indians, by Garrick Mallerv. in the first 

 annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1879-80. 



3 MotaPadilla, xxxiii, 3, p. 105, says: "Hastaalli caminaron los nuestros, guiados por el Tnrcopara el 

 Oriente, eon mucha inclinacion al Norte, y desde entonces los guio via recta al Oriente ; y babiendo 

 andado tn s jornadas, hubo de haeer alto el gobernador para conferir sobre si seria acertado dejarse 

 llevar de aquel indio, habiendo nnidado de rumbo, en cuyo intermedio un soldado, 6 por travesura, 

 por hacer came, Be aparto, y aunque lo esperaron, no so Bupo mas de el; y a dos jornadas que 

 auduvieron, guiados todavla del indio pasarorj una barranca profunda, que fue la primera quo-iua 

 iiu.. vinon de l:i t i.rr.i desde Tiguea ' Compare the route of the expedition in the Introduction, and 

 also in the translation of Jaramillo. 



