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and they said it came from a distance. From what the Indian had said, 

 it is possible that this village of Arae contains more, 1 from the clear 

 description of it which he gave. We did not find any trace or news of 

 it here. Francisco Vazquez returned from here to the river of Tiguex, 

 where he found the army. We went hack by a more direct route, 

 because in goiug by the way we went we traveled 330 leagues, and it 

 is not more than 200 by that by which we returned. Quivira is in the 

 fortieth degree and the river in the thirty-sixth. It was so dangerous 

 to travel or to go away from the camp in these plains, that it is as if 

 one was traveling on the sea. since the only roads are those of the 

 cows, and they are so level and have no mountain or prominent land- 

 mark, that if one went out of sight of it. he was lost, and in this way we 

 lost one man. and others who went hunting wandered around two or 

 three days, lost. Two kinds of people travel around these plains with 

 the cows; one is called Querechos and the others Teyas; they are very 

 well built, and painted, and are enemies of each other. They have no 

 other settlement or location than comes from traveling around with the 

 cows. They kill all of these they wish, and tan the hides, with which 

 they clothe themselves and make their tents, and they eat the flesh, 

 sometimes even raw, and they also even drink the blood when thirsty. 

 The tents they make are like tield tents, and they set them up over 

 some poles they have made tor this purpose, which come together and 

 are tied at the top, and when they go from one place to another they 

 carry them on some dogs they have, of which they have many, and 

 they load them with the tents and poles and other things, for the 

 country is so level, as I said, that they can make use of these, because 

 they carry the poles dragging along on the ground. The sun is what 

 they worship most. The skin for the tents is cured on both sides, 

 without the hair, and they have the skins of deer and cows left over. 2 

 They exchange some cloaks with the natives of the river for corn. 



After Francisco Vazquez reached the river, where he found the army, 

 Don Pedro de Tobar came with half the people from the Hearts, and 

 Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas started off for Mexico, who, besides the 

 fact that his arm was very bad, had permission from the viceroy on 

 account of the death of his brother. Ten or twelve who were sick went 

 with him, and not a man among them all who could tight. He reached 

 the town of the Spaniards and found it burned and two Spaniards and 

 many Indians and horses dead, and he returned to the river on this 

 account, escaping from them by good fortune and great exertions. The 

 cause of this misfortune was that after Don Pedro started and left 40 

 men there, half of these raised a mutiny and fled, and the Indians, who 

 remembered the bad treatment they had received, attacked them one 

 night and overpowered them because of their carelessness aud weak- 

 ness, and they tied to Culiacau. Francisco Vazquez fell while running 



1 Or mines. ;ts Bfuftoz guesses. 



2 And jerked beef dried in the sun, in tin- Munoz copy only. 



