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us placed much confidence in Lira, although he was advised by several 

 gentlemen not to move the whole army, but rather to semi a captain to 

 find out what was tliere. He did not wish to do this, but wanted to take 

 every one, and even to send Don Pedro de Tobar to the Hearts for 

 half the men who were in that village. So he started with the whole, 

 army, and proceeded 150 leagues, 100 to the east and 50 to the south, 1 

 and the Indian failing to make good what he had said about there being 

 a settlement there, and corn, with which to proceed farther, the oilier 

 two guides were asked how that was, and one confessed that what the 

 Indian said was a lie, except that there was a province which was called 

 Quivira, and that there was corn and houses of straw there, but that 

 they were very far off, because we had been led astray a distance from 

 the road. Considering this, and the small supply of food that Mas left, 

 Francisco Vazquez, after consulting with the captains, determined to 

 proceed with 30 of the best men who were well equipped, and that the 

 army should return to the river; and this was done at once. Two days 

 before this, Don Garcia Lopez' horse had happened to fall with him, 

 and he threw his arm out of joint, from which he suffered much, and 

 so Don Tristan de Arellano returned to the river with the army. On 

 this journey they had a very hard time, because almost all of them had 

 nothing to eat except meat, and many suffered on this account. They 

 killed a world of bulls and cows, for there were days when they brought 

 00 and 70 head into camp, and it was necessary to go hunting every day, 

 and on this account, and from not eating any corn during all this time, 

 the horses suffered much. 



Francisco Vazquez set out across these plains in search of Quivira, 

 more on account of the story which had been told us at the river than 

 from the confidence which was placed iu the guide here, and after pro- 

 ceeding many days by the needle (i. e., to the north) it pleased God that 

 after thirty days' march we found the river Quivira, which is 30 leagues 

 below the settlement. While going up the valley, we found people 

 who were going hunting, who were natives of Quivira. 



All that there is at Quivira is a very brutish people, without any 

 decency whatever in their houses nor iu anything. These are of straw, 

 like the Tarascan settlements; in some villages tliere are as many as 

 200 houses; they have corn and beans and melons; they do not have 

 cotton nor fowls, nor do they make bread which is cooked, except 

 under the ashes. Francisco Vazquez went 25 leagues through these 

 settlements, to where he obtained an account of what was beyond, and 

 they said that the plains come to an end, and that down the river there 

 are people who do not. plant, but live wholly by hunting. 



They also gave an account of two other large villages, one of which 

 was called Tareque 2 and the other Arae, with straw houses at Tareque, 

 and at Arae some of straw and some of skins. Copper was found here, 



' Southeast, in Buckingham Smith's M nun/ copy. 

 2 Tuxeque, in the Munoz copy. 

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