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6 or 7 leagues a day. It had been the duty of one man to measure aud 

 count Lis steps. They found that it was 250 leagues to the settlements. 1 

 When the general Francisco Vazquez realized this, and saw that they 

 had been deceived by the Turk heretofore, and as the provisions were 

 giving out and there was no country around here where they could 

 procure more, he called the captains and ensigns together to decide on 

 what they thought ought to be done. They all agreed that the general 

 should go in search of Quivira with thirty horsemen and half a dozen 

 foot-soldiers, and that Don Tristan de Arellano should go back to Tiguex 

 with all the army. When the men in the army learned of this decision, 

 they begged their general not to leave them to conduct the further 

 search, but declared that they all wanted to die with him aud did not 

 want to go back. This did not do any good, although the general 

 agreed to send messengers to them within eight days saying whether 

 it was best for them to follow him or not, aud with this he set off with 

 the guides he had and with Ysopete. The Turk was taken along in 

 chains. 



Chapter 21, of how the army returned to Tiguex and the general reaehed 

 Quivira. 



The general started from the ravine with the guides that the Teyas 

 had given him. He appointed the alderman Diego Lopez his army- 

 master, and took with him the men who seemed to him to be most effi- 

 cient, and the best horses. The army still had some hope that the 

 general would send for them, and sent two horsemen, lightly equipped 

 and riding post, to repeat their petition. 



The general arrived — I mean, the guides ran away during the first 

 few days and Diego Lopez had to return to the army for guides, bring- 

 ing orders for the army to return to Tiguex to find food and wait there 

 for the general. The Teyas, as before, willingly furnished him with 

 new guides. The army waited for its messengers and spent a fortnight 

 liere, preparing jerked beef to take with them. It was estimated that 

 during this fortnight they killed 500 bulls The number of these 

 that were there without any cows was something incredible. Many 

 fellows were lost at this time who went out hunting and did not get 

 back to the army for two or three days, wandering about the country 

 as if they were crazy, in one direction or another, not knowing how to 

 get back where they started from, although this ravine extended in 

 either direction so that they could find it. 2 Every night they took 

 account of who was missing, fired guns and blew trumpets and beat 

 drums and built great fires, but yet some of them went off so far and 

 wandered about so much that all this did not give them any help, 

 although it helped others. The only way was to go back where they had 

 killed an animal and start from there in one direction and another until 



■The Tiguex country is often referred to as the region where the BetUementa were. Ternaux 

 Bays "doping Tiguex jasqu'au dernier village. ' 

 ''Compare the Spanish text. 



