526 THE CORONADO EXPEDITION, 1540-1512 [eth.ann.H 



the Turk, bul it would have been better to cross the mountains where 

 this river rises. 1 believe they would have found traces of riches and 

 would have reached the lauds from which these people started, which 

 from its location is on the edge of Greater India, although the region is 

 neither known nor understood, because from the trend of the coast it 

 appears that the land between Norway and China is very far up. 1 The 

 country from sea. to sea is very wide, judging from the location of both 

 coasts, as well as from what Captain Villalobos discovered when he went 

 in search of China by the sea to the west.' and from what has been dis- 

 covered on the North sea concerning the trend of the coast of Florida 

 toward the Kacallaos, up toward Norway. 



To return then to the proposition with which 1 began, 1 say that the 

 settlements and people already named were all that were seen in a 

 region TO leagues wide and 130 long, in the settled country along the 

 river Tiguex. 4 In New Spain there are not one but many establish 

 nients, containing a. larger number of people. Silver metals were found 

 in many of their villages, which they use for glazing and painting their 

 earthenware/' 



Chapter ,~, which treats «;/' the plains that were crossed, of the COWS, 

 and of the people who inhabit them. 



We have spoken of the settlements of high houses which are situated 

 in what seems to be the most level and open part of the mountains, 

 since it is 150 leagues across before entering the level country between 

 the two mountain chains which 1 said were near the North sea and the 

 South sea, which might better be called the Western sea along this coast. 

 This mountain series is the one which is near the South sea." In order 

 to show that the settlements arc in the middle of the mountains, I will 

 state that it is SO leagues from Chichilticalli. where we began to cross 

 this country, to Cibola; from Cibola, which is the first village, to 

 Cicuye, which is the last on the way across, is TO leagues; it is 30 

 leagues from Cicuye to where the plains begin. It may be we went 

 across m nil indirect or roundabout way, which would make it seem as 

 if there was more country than if it had been crossed in a direct line, 

 and it may be more difficult and rougher. This can not be known cer- 

 tainly, because the mountains change their direct ion above the bay at 

 the mouth of the Firebrand (Tizon) river. 



1 Tornaux, p MM : " lt'apres la route qu'lls out suivir, ils out du venir de lext rem i [e de 1 liulo orien 



tale, ot dune part ie tree inoonnue qui. d'apres la configuration doa cotes, sera it situee tares avant dans 

 i'interieur dea terres, entre la Chine et la Norwege." 



•Scf the Carta esorita poi Sam Isteban a tfendoaa, which tells nearly everything that is known of the 



voyage of Villalobos. Wo ran only surmise what Cast a tied, i ma\ huve know n about it 



s The Spanish text fully .lllstities I 'astaneda's statement that he was not skilled in the alts of rhet- 

 oric ami geography. 



'Compare the Spanish text. I here follow Ternaux's rendering. 



Mn a note 'I'ernaux. p. 185, Bays Le [dernier] mol est illiaible, mais oomme l'auteur parle de certain 

 email que les Cspagnols trouverent, . . . j'ai em pouvoir hasanler eette interpretation. 1 ' The 

 u oril ia legible enough, hut the letters do not make any word for which I cm find a meaning. 



" Mete than once Castafiedn seems to tie addressing those a hunt him w here he is writing iu t'uliacau. 



