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prilled down, in the yards of which there were many stone balls, as 

 big as 12-quart bowls, which seemed to have been thrown by engines 

 or catapults, which had destroyed the village. All that I was able to 

 find out about them was that, sixteen years before, some people called 

 Teyas, 1 had come to this country in great numbers and had destroyed 

 these villages. They had besieged Cicuye but had not been able to cap- 

 ture it, because it was strong, and when they left the region, they had 

 made peace with the whole country. It seems as if they must have 

 been a powerful people, and that they must have had engines to knock 

 down the villages. The only thing they could tell about the direction 

 these people came from was by pointing toward the north. They 

 usually call these people Teyas or brave men, just as the Mexicans say 

 ehichimecas or braves, 2 for the Teyas whom the army saw were brave. 

 These knew the people in the settlements, and were friendly with them, 

 and they (the Teyas of the plains) went there to spend the winter 

 under the wings of the settlements. The' inhabitants do not dare to 

 let them come inside, because they can not trust them. Although they 

 are received as friends, and trade with them, they do not stay in the vil- 

 lages over night, but outside under the wings. The villages are guarded 

 by sentinels with trumpets, who call to one another just as in the for- 

 tresses of Spain. 



There are seven other villages along this route, toward the snowy 

 mountains, one of which has been half destroyed by the people already 

 referred to. These were under the rule of Cicuye. Cicuye is in a little 

 valley between mountain chains and mountains covered with large pine 

 forests. There is a little stream which contains very good trout and 

 otters, and there are very large bears and good falcons hereabouts. 



Chapter 6, which (jives the number of villages which were seen in the 

 country of the terraced houses, and their population. 



Before I proceed to speak of the plains, with the cows and settlements 

 and tribes there, it seems to me that it will be well for the reader to 

 know how large the settlements were, where the houses with stories, 

 gathered into villages, were seen, and how great an extent of country 

 they occupied. 3 As I say, Cibola is the first: 



Cibola, seven villages. 



Tusayan, seven villages. 



The rock of Acuco, one. 



■These Indians were seen by Coronado during his journey across the plains. As Mr Hodge has sug- 

 gested, they may have been the Comanches, who on many occasions are known to have made inroads 

 on the pueblo of Pecos. 



2 Ternaux's rendering of the uncertain word teules in the Spanish text. Molina, in the Vocabulario 

 Mexicano (1555), fol. 36, has "brauohoinbre . . . tlauele." Gomara speaks of the ehichimecas in 

 the quotation in the footnote on page 529. The term was applied to all wild tribes 



*Bandelier, Final lleport, pt. i.p. :14: "With the exception of Acoma, there is not a single pueblo stand- 

 ing where it was at. the time of Coronado. or even sixty years later, when Juan de Oiiate accomplished 

 the peaceable reduction of the Xew Mexican village Indians." Compare with the discussion in this 

 part of Ins Final Report, Mr Bandolier's attempt to identify the various clusters of villages, in his 

 Historical Introduction, pp. 22-24. 



