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many animals — bears, tigers, lions, porcupines, and some sbeep as big 

 as a borse, with very large borns and little tails. I have seen some of 

 tbeir borns tbe size of which was something to marvel at.' There are 

 also wild goats, whose heads I have seen, and tbe paws of the bears and 

 the skins of the wild boars. For game they have deer, leopards, and 

 very large deer,- and every one thinks that some of them are larger 

 than that animal which Your Lordship favored me with, which belonged 

 to Juan Melaz. They inhabit some plains eight days' journey toward 

 the north. They have some of their skins here very well dressed, and 

 they prepare and paint them where they kill the cows, according to 

 what they tell me. 



Of the nature and situation of the kingdoms of Totonteae, Marata, and 

 Acus, wholly different from the account of Friar Marcos. The confer- 

 ence which they had with the Indians of the city of Granada, which 

 they had captured, who had been forewarned of the coming of Christians 

 into their country fifty years before. The account which teas obtained 

 from them concerning seven other cities, of which Tucano is the chief, 

 and how he sent to discover them. A present sent to Mendoza of various 

 things found in this country by Vazquez Coronado. 



These Indians say that the kingdom of Totonteae, which the father 

 provincial praised so much, saying that it was something marvelous, 

 and of such a very great size, and that cloth was made there, is a 

 hot lake, on the edge of which there are five or six bouses. 3 There 

 used to be some others, but these have been destroyed by war. The 

 kingdom of Marata can not be found, nor do these Indians know any- 

 thing about it. The kingdom of Acus is a single small city, where they 

 raise cotton, and this is called Acucu. 4 I say that this is the country, 

 because Acus, witb or without the aspiration, is not a word in this 

 region; and because it seems to me that Acucu may be derived from 

 Acus, I say that it is this towu which has been converted into the 

 kingdom of Acus. They tell me that there are some other small ones 

 not far from this settlement, which are situated on a river which I have 

 seen and of which the Indians have told me. God knows that I wish 

 I had better news to write to Your Lordship, but I must give you tbe 

 truth, and, as I wrote you from Culiacan, I must advise you of the 

 good as well as of the bad. But you may be assured that if there had 

 been all tbe riches and treasures of the world, I could not have done 

 more in His Majesty's service and in that of Your Lordship than I have 

 done, in coming here where you commanded me to go, carrying, both 

 my companions and myself, our food on our backs for 300 leagues, and 



'See tbe translation of Castafieda's narrative, p. 4S7. 



'Doubtless a slip of Ramusio s pen for cows, i. e., buftalos. 



: Coronado doubtless misinterpreted what tbe natives intended to communicate. The " hot lake" 

 was in all probability tbe salt lake alluded to on page 550. near which Marata was situated. Toton- 

 teae w as of course Tusayan, or " Tucano." 



4 This is a form of the Zufii name for Acoma — Hakukia. 



