558 THE COKONADO EXPEDITION, 1540-1542 [eth.ann.h 



Of the situation and condition of the Seven Cities called the kingdom of 

 Gevola, and the sort of people and their customs, and <</' the animals 

 which are found there. 



It now remains for me to tell about this city and kingdom and prov- 

 ince, of which the Father Provincial gave Your Lordship an account. 

 In brief, I can assure you that in reality he has not told the truth in a 

 single thing that he said, but everything is the reverse of what he said, 

 except the uame of the city and the large stone houses. For, although 

 they are not decorated with turquoises, nor made of lime nor of good 

 bricks, nevertheless they are very good houses, with three and four 

 and five stories, where there are very good apartments and good rooms 

 with corridors, 1 and some very good rooms under ground and paved, 

 which are made for winter, and are something like a sort of hot baths. 2 

 The ladders which they have for their houses are all movable and port- 

 able, which are taken up and placed wherever they please. They are 

 made of two pieces of wood, with rounds like ours. |See plates lviii, 

 lvix.] The Seven Cities are seven little villages, all having the kind 

 of houses I have described. They are all within a radius of 5 leagues. 

 They are all called the kingdom of Cevola, and each has its own name 

 and no single one is called Cevola, but all together are called Cevola. 

 This one which I have called a city I have named Granada, partly 

 because it has some similarity to it, 3 as well as out of regard for Your 

 Lordship. In this place where I am now lodged there are perhaps 200 

 houses, all surrounded by a wall, and it seems to me that with the other 

 houses, which are not so surrounded, there might be altogether 500 

 families. There is another town near by, which is one of the seven, but 

 somewhat larger than this, and another of the same size as this, and 

 the other four are somewhat smaller. I send them all to Your Lord- 

 ship, painted with the route. The skin on which the painting is made 

 was found here with other skins. The people of the towns seem to me 

 to be of ordinary size and intelligent, although I do not think that they 

 have the judgment and intelligence which they ought to have to 

 build these houses in the way in which they have, for most of them are 

 entirely naked except the covering of their privy parts, and they have 

 painted mantles like the one which I send to Your Lordship. They do 

 not raise cotton, because the country is very 'cold, but they wear 

 mantles, as may be seen by the exhibit which I send. It is also true 

 that some cotton thread was found in their houses. They wear the 

 hair on their heads like the Mexicans. They all have good figures, 

 and are well bred. I think that they have a quantity of turquoises, 

 which they had removed with the rest of their goods, except the corn, 

 when I arrived, because I did not find any women here nor any men 



'Hakluyt: . . . "very excellent good houses of three or Inure or fine lofts high, wherein are 

 good lodgings anil faire chambers with lathers in stead of staires." 



2 The kivas or ceremonial chambers. 



'Set- the footnote on page 564 in regard to the similarity of names. The note was written without 

 reference to the above passage. 



