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a rebellion later, and part of the people who had settled there were killed, 

 as will be seen in the third part, There are many villages in the neigh- 

 borhood of this valley. The people are the same as those in Seiiora and 

 have the same dress and language, habits, ami customs, like all the rest 

 as far as the desert of Ghichilticalli. The women paint their chins and 

 eyes like the Moorish women of Barbary. They are great sodomites. 

 They drink wine made of the pitahaya. which is the fruit of a great 

 thistle which opens like the pomegranate. The wine makes them 

 stupid. They make a great quantity of preserves from the tuna: they 

 preserve it in a large amount of its sap without other honey. They 

 make bread of the mesquite, like cheese, which keeps good tor a whole 

 year.' There are Dative melons in this country 80 large that a person 

 can carry only one of them. They cut these into slices and dry them 

 in the sun. They are good to eat. and taste like figs, and are better 

 than dried meat: they are very good and sweet, keeping tor a whole 

 year when prepared in this way. 8 



In this country there were also tame eagles, which the chiefs esteemed 

 to be something tine. 3 No fowls of any sort were seen in any of these 

 villages except in tins valley of Suva, where fowls like those of Castile 

 were found. Nobody could find out how they came to be so far inland, 

 the people being all at war with one another. Between Suya and Chichil- 

 ticalli there are many sheep and mountain goats with very large bodies 

 and horns. Some Spaniards declare that they have seen flocks of more 

 than a hundred together, which ran so fast that they disappeared very 

 quickly. 



At Ghichilticalli the country changes its character again and the 

 spiky vegetation ceases. The reason is that the gulf reaches as far up 

 as this place, and the mountain chain changes its direction at the same 

 time that the coast does. Here they had to cross and pass through the 

 mountains in order to get into the level country. 



Chapter 3, of Ghichilticalli and the desert, of Cibola, its customs and 

 fatbits, anil of other things. 



Ghichilticalli is SO called because the friars found a house at this place 

 which was formerly inhabited by people who separated from Cibola. It 

 was made of colored or reddish earth. 4 The house was large and appeared 

 to have been a fortress. It must have been destroyed by the people of 

 the district, who are the most barbarous people that have yet been seen. 

 They live in separate cabins and not in settlements. They live by hunt- 



1 Bandolier, Final Report, pt, i. p. 111, quotes from tin- Relaciones of Zaraie-Salmoron, of some 1 

 Endians " Tambien tie mm para en saateoto Mescal! ouees oonserva de rais dc maguey." The strong 

 liquor is made from the root ol the Mexican or American agave. 



-Tin so were doubtless cantaloupes. The southwestern Indians still slice and dry them in a manner 

 similar to that here described, 



Pueblo Indians, parti, ulatly the Zur.i ami Bopi, keep eagles tor their feathers, which are 

 hi-lil) prised because "t their reputed sacred character, 



4 CliH-iultn- oalh.a red object or house, according to Molina's Vocabulario Mexicano, 1555, Bandolier, 

 Historical Introduction, t> n gives references to the ancienl and modern descriptions. 1'hc location 

 is discussed on page a>7 of the present memoir. 



