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much. They season it with fat, which they always try to secure when 

 they kill a cow. 1 They empty a large gut and fill it with blood, and 

 carry this around the neck to drink when they are thirsty. When 

 they open the belly of a cow, they squeeze out the chewed grass and 

 drink the juice that remains behind, because they say that this contains 

 the essence of the stomach. They cut the hide open at the back and 

 pull it off at the joints, using a flint as large as a finger, tied in a little 

 stick, with as much ease as if working with a good iron tool. They 

 give it an edge with their own teeth. The quickness with which they 

 do this is something worth seeing and noting. 2 



There are very great numbers of wolves on these plains, which go 

 around with the cows. They have white skins. The deer are pied with 

 white. Their skin is loose, so that when they are killed it can be pulled 

 off with the hand while warm, coming off like pigskin. 3 The rabbits, 

 which are very numerous, are so foolish that those on horseback killed 

 them with their lances. This is when they are mounted among the 

 cows. They fly from a person on foot. 



Chapter 8, of Quivira, <;/' where it is and some information about it. 



Quivira is to the west of those ravines, in the midst of the country, 

 somewhat nearer the mountains toward the sea, for the country is level 

 as far as Quivira, and there they began to see some mountain chains. 

 The, country is well settled. Judging from what was seen on the bor- 

 ders of it, this country is very similar to that of Spain in the varieties 

 of vegetation and fruits. There are plums like those of Castile, grapes, 

 nuts, mulberries, oats, pennyroyal, wild marjoram, and large quantities 

 of flax, but this does not do them any good, because they do not know 

 how to use it. 4 The people are of almost the same sort and appear- 

 ance as the Teyas. They have villages like those in New Spain. The 

 houses are round, without a wall, and they have one story like a loft, 

 under the roof, where they sleep and keep their belongings. The roofs 



' Pemmican 



2 Mota Padilla, cap. xxxii. 2, p. 165 : ' ' Habiendo andado cuatro jornadas por estos llanos, con grandes 

 neblinas, advirtieron Ins snldadoa rastro como de picas de laiizas arrastradas por el sueln, y llevados por 

 la curiosidad, lo siguieron liastadarcon cincuenta gandules, que con sus familias. seguian inias manadas 

 de dichas vacas, y en uuos perrillos no corpulentos, cargaban unas varas y pieles, con las que forma, 

 ban sus tirndas 6 toritos, en dumb' se entraban para resistir el sol 6 el agua. Los indios son de bnena 

 est at lira, yno Be supo si eran baraganes o tenian pueblos; presumiose los tendrian, porque uinguna de 

 las indias llevaba uino pequefio; andaban vestidascon unos faldellines decuerode venadode lacmtura 

 para abajo, y del niismo cueronnos capisayos 6 vizcainas. con que se cubren ; traen nnas niedias calzas 

 de cuero adobado y sandalias de cuero crude: ellos andan desnudos, y cuando mas les atlige el frio, se 

 cubren con cueros adobados; no usan, ni los hombres ni las mujeres, cabello largo, siuo trasquiladoa, 

 y de media cabeza para la frente rapados :i navaja; usan por annas las flechas, y con loa sesos de las 

 mismas racas beneficial) y adoban los cueros: llamanse cibolos. y tienen mas lmpeta para em bestir que 

 Ins torus, aunqueno tanta fortaleza; y en las fiestas realesque se celebraron en la ciudad tie Mexico por 

 la jura denuestro rey D. Luis I, bizoel eondede San Mateo de Valparaiso se llevase una ciliola para que 

 se torease, y por solo verla se despoblo Mexico, por bailar lugar eu la plaza, que le fuc may util al tabla 

 jero aquel dia." 



3 Compare the Spanish. Omitted by Ternaux. 



4 Mr Savage, in the Transactions id* the Nebraska Historical Society, vol. i, p. 198, sbows bow closely 

 the descriptions of Caatafieda, Jaramillo, and the others on the expedition, harmonize with the tiora 

 and fauna of bis State. 



