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and beans and melons. They Lave some fowls, which they keep so as to 

 make cloaks of their feathers. They raise cotton, although not much; 

 they wear cloaks made of this, and shoes of hide, as at Cibola, These 

 people defend themselves very well, and from within their houses, since 

 they do not care to come out. The country is all sandy. 



Four days' journey from the province and river of Tiguex four villages 

 are found. The first has 30 houses; the second is a large village 

 destroyed in their wars, and has about 35 houses occupied; the third 

 about These three are like those at the river in every way. The 



fourth is a large village which is among some mountains. It is called 

 Cicuic, and has about 50 houses, with as many stories as those at Cibola. 

 The walls are of dirt and mud like those at Cibola, It has plenty of 

 corn, beans and melons, and some fowls. Four days from this village. 

 they came to a country as level as the sea, and in these plains there was 

 such a multitude of cows that they are numberless. These cows are 

 like those of Castile, and somewhat larger, as they have a little hump 

 on the withers, and they are more reddish, approaching black; their 

 hair, more than a span long, hangs down around their horns and ears 

 and chin, and along the neck and shoulders like manes, and down from 

 the knees; all the rest is a very line wool, like merino; they have very 

 good, tender meat, and much fat. Having proceeded many days 

 through these plains, they came to a settlement of about 200 inhab- 

 ited houses. The houses were made of the skins of the cows, tanned 

 white, like pavilions or army tents. The maintenance or sustenance of 

 these Indians comes entirely from the cows, because they neither sow 

 nor reap corn. With the skins they make their houses, with the skins 

 they clothe and shoe themselves, of the skins they make rope, and also 

 of the wool ; from the sinews they make thread, with which they sew 

 their clothes and also their houses; from the bones they make awls: the 

 dung serves them for wood, because there is nothing else in that coun- 

 try; the stomachs serve them for pitchers and vessels from which they 

 drink; they live on the flesh; they sometimes eat it half roasted and 

 warmed over the dung, at other times raw; seizing it with their fingers, 

 they pull it out with one hand and with a flint kuife in the other they 

 cut off mouthfuls, and thus swallow it half chewed; they eat the fat 

 raw. without warming it; they drink the blood just as it leaves the 

 cows, and at other times after it lias run out, cold and raw; they have 

 no other means of livelihood. These people have dogs like those in 

 this country, except that they are somewhat larger, and they load these 

 dogs like beasts of burden, and make saddles for them like our pack 

 saddles, and they fasten them with their leather thongs, and these make 

 their backs sore on the withers like pack animals. When they go 

 hunting, they load these with their necessities, and when they move — for 

 these Indians are not settled in one place, since they travel wherever 

 the cows move, to support themselves — these dogs carry their houses, 

 and they have the sticks of their houses dragging along tied on to the 



