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could see it, and on this account Don Garcia Lopez was forced to return. 

 This river comes from tbe northeast ami turns toward the south-south- 

 west at the place where they found it, so that it is without any doubt 

 the one that Melchor-Diaz reached. • 



Four days after Francisco Vazquez had dispatched Don Garcia 

 Lopez to make this discovery, he dispatched Hernando de Alvarado to 

 explore the route toward the east. He started off, and 30 leagues 

 from Cibola found a rock with a village on top, the strongest position 

 that ever was seen in the world, which was called Acuco 1 in their 

 language, and father Friar Marcos called it the kingdom of Hacus. 

 They came out to meet us peacefully, although it would have been easy to 

 decline to do this and to have stayed on their rock, where we would not 

 have been able to trouble them. They gave us cloaks of cotton, skins 

 of deer and of cows, and turquoises, and fowls and other food which 

 they had, which is the same as in Cibola. 



Twenty leagues to the east of this rock we found a river which 

 runs north and south,-' well settled; there are in all, small and large, 

 70 villages near it, afewmoreor less, the same sort as those at < ibola, 

 except that they are almost all of well-made mud walls. The food is 

 neither more nor less. They raise cotton — I mean those who live near 

 the river — the others not. There is much corn here. These people do 

 not have markets. They are settled for 50 leagues along this river, 

 north and south, and some villages are 15 or 20 leagues distant, in one 

 direction and the other. This river rises where these settlements end 

 at the north, on the slope of the mountains there, where there is a larger 

 village different from the others, called Yuraba. 3 It is settled in this 

 fashion: It has 18 divisions; each one has a situation as if for two 

 ground plots; 4 the houses are very close together, and have live or six 

 stories, three of them witli mud walls and two or three with thin wooden 

 walls, which become smaller as they go up, and each one has its little 

 balcony outside of the mud walls, one above the other, all around, of 

 wood. In this village, as it is in the mountains, they do not raise cotton 

 nor breed fowls; they wear the skins of deer and cows entirely. It is 

 the most populous village of all that country; we estimated there were 

 15,000 souls in it. There is one of the other kind of villages larger 

 than all the rest, and very strong, which is called Cicuique/ 1 It has four 

 and five stories, has eight large courtyards, each one. with its balcony, 

 and there are fine houses in it. They do not raise cotton nor keep fowls, 

 because it is 15 leagues away from the river to the east, toward the 

 plains where the cows are. After Alvarado had sent an account of this 



'The Aconia people call their pueblo Ako, while the name for themselves ia Akomi 1 , signifying 

 "people of the white rock." The ZuOi name of Aconia. aa previously stated, is Hakukia; of theAcoma 

 people, Hiiku kwe. Hacua was applied by Niza to Hawikuh, not to Acoma— Hodgv. 



*The Rio Grande. 

 Evidently Taoa, the native name of which is Tuata, the Picuris name being Tuopa, according to 

 Hodge. 



'The Spanish text (p. 323) ia: "Tien., di.z e ocho barrios; cada uno tiene tantu sitio como doa 

 solarea, las casaa uray juntas." 



identical with Castaneda's Cicuyc or Cicuye — the pueblo of Pecoa. 



