wihship] TRANSLATION OF CASTANEDA 509 



they struck the ravine or fell in with somebody who could put them on 

 the right road. It is worth noting' that the country there is so level that 

 at midday, after one has wandered about in one direction and another 

 in pursuit of game, the only thing to do is to stay near the game quietly 

 untd sunset, so as to see where it goes down, and even then they have 

 to be men who are practiced to do it. Those who are not, had to trust 

 themselves to others. 



The general followed his guides until he reached Quivira, which took 

 forty-eight days' marching, on account of the great detour they had 

 made toward Florida. 1 He was received peacefully on account of the 

 guides whom he had. They asked the Turk why he had lied and had 

 guided them so far out of their way. He said that his country was in 

 that direction and that, besides this, the people at Cicuye had asked him 

 to lead them off on to the plains and lose them, so that the horses would 

 die when their provisions gave out, and they would be so weak if they 

 ever returned that they could be killed without any trouble, and thus 

 they could take revenge for what had been done to them. This was the 

 reason why he had led them astray, supposing that they did not know 

 how to hunt or to live without corn, while as for the gold, he did not 

 know where there was any of it. He said this like one who had given 

 up hope and who found that he was being persecuted, since they had 

 begun to believe Ysopete, who had guided them better than he had, and 

 fearing lest those who were there might give some advice by which some 

 harm would come to him. They garroted him, which pleased Ysopete 

 very much, because he had always said that Ysopete was a rascal and 

 that he did not know what he was talking about and had always hindered 

 his talking with anybody. Neither gold nor silver nor any trace of either 

 was found among these people. Their lord wore a copper plate on his 

 neck and prized it highly. 



The messengers whom the army had sent to the general returned, as 

 I said, and then, as they brought no news except what the alderman 

 had delivered, the army left the ravine and returned to the Teyas, 

 where they took guides who led them back by a more direct road. 

 They readily furnished these, because these people are always roaming 

 over this country in pursuit of the animals and so know it thoroughly. 

 They keep their road in this way: In the morning they notice where 

 the sun rises and observe the direction they are going to take, and 

 then shoot an arrow in this direction. Before reaching this they shoot 

 another over it, and in this way they go all day toward the water 

 where they are to end the day. In this way they covered in 25 days 



1 Herrera, Historia General, dec. vi, lib. is, cap. xii, vol. iii, p. 206 (ed. 1728) : "Los treiuta Caballos 

 fueron en busca de la Tierra poblada, i hallar<Jn buenos Pueblos, fundados junto a. Buenos Arroios, quo 

 van it dar al Rio Grande, que pasaron. Anduvieron cinco, 6 seis dias por estos Pueblos, llegaron a lo 

 vltimo de Quivira, que decian los Indios ser mucho, i hallaron vn Rio de mas Agua, i poblaciou que los 

 otros ; i preguntando que si adelante bavia otra cosa, dixeron, que de Quivira no bavia sino Harae, i 

 que era de la misma manera en Poblaciones, i tmnafio. . . . Embiose a llamar al Seiior, el qual era 

 vn Hombre graude, y de grandes miembros, de buena proporcion, llevd docientoa ' imbres desiiudos, 

 imal cubiertas sus carnes, llevaban Areos, i Flecbas, i Plu_ :S en las u. - : as." Compare Jarainillu's 

 statement and Coronado's letter, as discussed in the introduction. 



