winship] NARRATIVE OF JARAMILLO 585 



the stream and village which is called Hearts (Corazones), the name 

 which was given it by Dorantes and Cabeza de Yaca and Castillo and 

 the negro Estebanillo, because they gave them a present of the hearts 

 of animals and birds to eat. 



About two days were spent in this village of the Hearts. There is an 

 irrigation stream, and the country is warm. Their dwellings arc huts 

 made of a frame of poles, almost like an oven, only very much better, 

 which they cover with mats. They have corn and beans and melons 

 for food, which I believe never fail them. They dress in deerskins. 

 This appeared to be a good place, and so orders were given the 

 Spaniards who were behind to establish a village here, where they 

 lived until almost the failure of the expedition. There was a poison 

 here, the effect of which is, according to what was seen of it, the worst 

 that could possibly be found; and from what we learned about it, it is 

 flic sap of a small tree like the mastick free, or lentisk, and it grows in 

 gravelly and sterile land.' We went on from here, passing through 

 a sort of gateway, to another valley very near this stream, which 

 opens off from this same stream, which is called Sefiora. It is also 

 irrigated, and the Indians are like the others and have the same 

 sort of settlements and food. This valley continues for 6 or 7 leagues, 

 a little more or less. At first these Indians were peaceful; and after- 

 ward not, but instead they and those whom they were able to 

 summon thither were our worst enemies. They have a poison with 

 which they killed several Christians. There are mountains on both 

 sides of them, which are not very fertile. Prom here we went along 

 near this said stream, crossing it where it makes a bend, to another 

 Indian settlement called Ispa. 2 It takes one day from the last of 

 these others to this place. It is of the same sort as those we had 

 passed. From here we went through deserted country for about four 

 days to another river, which we heard called Xexpa, where some poor 

 Indians came out to see the general, with presents of little value, with 

 some stalks of roasted maguey and pitahayas. We went down this 

 stream two days, and then left the stream, going toward the right to the 

 foot of the mountain chain in two days' journey, where we heard news 

 of what is called Chichiltic Calli. Crossing the mountains, we came to a 

 deep and reedy river, where we found water and forage for the horses. 



'Tin- Spanish text reads : " Halir.i eonio dos joruadas (;)en este pueblo de los Corazones. (es) Es mi 

 arroyo do riego y de tierra caliente, y tienen bus viviendas de unos ranchos que despues de armados 

 Ins palOB, casi a ruanera de homos, aimque niuy mayoreu, los eubren eon unos petates. Tieneu maiz y 

 frisoles y calabazas para su comer, que ereo que no le falta. Visteuse de eueros de venados, y aqui 

 por sit este puesto al pareoer i :osa decente, Be mandd poblar aqui una villa de los espanoles que iban 

 traseros donde vivieron hasta casi que hi Jornada perescid. Aqui bay yerba y seguro (segund) lo quo 

 di 11a so vie, y la operation que bare es la m is mala que si- puede ballar, y delo que tuvimos entendido 

 sei, ei a de la leebe dt- un arbol [lequefiu, -i manera de lantisco en euasei, (, E Nasee) en pizarrillas y 

 tierra esteril." This quotation follows the Paeheeo y Cardenas text. The important variations of 

 Buckingham Smith's copy an- inclosed within parentheses. The spelling of the two, in such mat- 

 ters as the use of b and <\ x amly. and tie- pu net nation, differ greatly. 



-See Bandelier's Gilded Man. p. 175. This is C'astaheda's " G-uagarispa" as mistakenly interpreted 

 by Ternaux-Coiupans, the present Arispe, or, in the Indian dialect, Huc-aritz-pa. The words " Ispa, 

 que" are not in the Pacbeco y Cardenas copy. 



