winship] TRANSLATION OF CASTANEDA 523 



Chapter 5, of Cicuye and the villages in its neighborhood, and <>/ lion- 

 some people came to conquer this country. 



We have already said that the people of Tiguex and of all the prov- 

 inces on the banks of that river were all alike, having the same ways 

 of living and the same customs. It will not be necessary to say any- 

 thing particular about them. I wish merely to give an account of Cicuye 

 and some depopulated villages which the army saw on the direct road 

 which it followed thither, and of others that were across the snowy 

 mountains near Tiguex, which also lay in that region above the river. 



Cicuye ' is a village of nearly Ave hundred warriors, who are feared 

 throughout that country. It is square, situated on a rock, with a large 

 court or yard in the middle, containing the estufas. The houses are all 

 alike, four stories high. One can go over the top of the whole village 

 without there being a street to hinder. There are corridors going all 

 around it at the lirst two stpries, by which one can go around the whole 

 village. These are like outside balconies, and they are able to protect 

 themselves under these. 2 The houses do not have doors below, but they 

 use ladders, which can be lifted up like a drawbridge, and so go up to 

 the corridors which are on the inside of the village. As the doors of the 

 houses open on the corridor of that story, the corridor serves as a street. 

 The houses that open on the plain are right back of those that open 

 on the court, and in time of war they go through those behind them. 

 The village is inclosed by a low wall of stone. There is a spring of 

 water inside, which they are able to divert. 3 The people of this village 

 boast that no one has been able to conquer them and that they conquer 

 whatever villages they wish. The people and their customs are like 

 those of the other villages. Their virgins also go nude until they take 

 husbands, because they say that if they do anything wrong then it will 

 be seen, and so they do not do it. They do not need to be ashamed 

 because they go around as they were born. 



There is a village, small and strong, between Cicuye aud the province 

 of Quirix, which the Spaniards named Ximena, 4 and another village 

 almost deserted, only one part of which is inhabited. 5 This was a large 

 village, and judging from its condition aud newness it appeared to have 

 been destroyed. They called this the village of the granaries or silos, 

 because large underground cellars were found here stored with corn. 

 There was another large village farther on, entirely destroyed and 



'Bandelier, in his Visit to Pecos, p. 114, n., states that the. former name of the pueblo was Aquin, and 

 suggests the possibility ot Castaiieda having originally written Acuy6. The Relacion del Snceso, 

 translated herein, has Acuiqne. As may be seen by examining the Spanish test, the Lenox manu- 

 script copy of Castaneda spells the name of this village sometimes Cicuye and sometimes Cicuye. ' 



'-Compare Bandolier's translation of this description, from Ternaux s text m bis Gilded Man p. 206. 

 See the accompanying illustrations, especially of ZuDi, which give an excellent idea of these terraces 

 or * corridors ' ' with their attached balconies. 



3 The spring was "still trickling out beneath a massive ledge of rocks on the west sill " when Ban- 

 delier sketched it in 1880. 



'The former Tano pueblo of Galisteo. a mile and a half northeast of the present town of the same 

 name, in Santa Fe county. 



e According to Mota Padilla, this was called Coquite. 



