winship] NARRATIVE OF JARAMILLO 589 



that he had seen fourothers likens many days before, whom lie had 

 seen near there and rather more toward New Spain, and we so under- 

 stood him, and presumed that it was Dorantes and Cabeza de Vaca 

 and those whom I have mentioned. At this settlement the general, 

 seeing our difficulties, ordered the captains, and the persons whose 

 advice he was accustomed to take, to assemble, so that we might 

 discuss with him what was best for all. It seemed to us that all the 

 force should go back to the region we had come from, in search of food, 

 so that they could regain their strength, and that 30 picked horsemen 

 should go in search of what the Indian had told about; and wedecided 

 to do this. We all went forward one day to a stream which was down 

 in a ravine in the midst of good meadows, to agree on who should go 

 ahead and how the rest should renirn. Here the Indian Isopete, as 

 we had called the companion of the said Turk, was asked to tell us 

 the truth, and to lead us to that country which we had come in search 

 of. He said he would do it, and that it was not as the Turk had said, 

 because those were certainly line things which he had said and had given 

 us to understand at Tihuex, about gold and how it was obtained, and 

 the buildings, and the style of them, and their trade, and many other 

 things told for the sake of prolixity, which had led us to go in search of 

 them, with the advice of all who gave it and of the priests. He asked 

 us to leave him afterward in that country, because it was his native 

 country, as a reward for guiding us, and also, that the Turk might 

 not go along with him, because he would rpiarrel and try to restrain 

 him in everything that he wanted to do for our advantage; and the 

 general promised him this, and said he. would be with one of the thirty, 

 and he went in this way. And when everything was ready for us to 

 set out and for the others to remain, we pursued our way, the direction 

 all the time after this being toward the north, for more than thirty 

 days' march, although not long marches, not having to go without water 

 on any one of them, and among cows all the time, some days in larger 

 numbers than others, according to the water which we came across, 

 so that on Saint Peter and Paul's day we reached a river which we 

 found to be there below Quibira. When we reached the said river, the 

 Indian recognized it aud said that was it, and that it was below the 

 settlements. We crossed it there and went up the other side on the 

 north, the direction turning toward the northeast, and after marching 

 three days we found some Indians who were going hunting, killing the 

 cows to take the meat to their village, which was about three or four 

 days still farther away from us. Here where we found the Indians 

 and they saw us, they began to utter yells and appeared to fly, aud 

 some even had their wives there with them. The Indian Isopete 

 began to call them in his language, and so they came to us without 

 any signs of fear. When we and these Indians had halted here, the 

 general made an example of the Indian Turk, whom we had brought 

 along, keeping him all the time out of sight among the rear guard, and 



