168 HOUSES AND HOUSE-LIFE OF THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES. 
wrought with turqueses, nor with lime, nor bricks, yet they are very excellent 
good houses, of three, or four, or five lofts high, wherein are good lodgings 
and fair chambers, with ladders instead of stairs, and certain cellars under 
the ground, very good and paved, which are made for winter,—they are in 
manner like stoves; and the ladders which they have for their houses are in 
a manner moveable and portable, which are taken away and set down when 
they please; and they are made of two pieces of wood, with their steps, as 
ours be. ‘The seven cities are seven small towns, all made with these kind 
of houses that I speak of; and they stand all within four leagues together, 
and they are all called the Kingdom of Cibola, and every one of them have 
their particular name, and none of them is called Cibola, but all together 
they are called Cibola. And this town, which I call a city, I have named 
Granada, as well because it is somewhat like unto it, as also in remembrance 
of your Lordship. In this town where I now remain there may be some 
two hundred houses, all compassed with walls; and, I think, that, with the 
rest of the houses which are not so walled, they may be together five hun- 
dred. There is another town near this, which is one of the seven, and it is 
somewhat bigger than this, and another of the same bigness that this is of, 
and the four are somewhat less; and I send them all painted unto your 
Lordship with the voyage. And the parchment wherein the picture is was 
found here with other parchments. 'The people of this town seem unto me 
of a reasonable stature, and witty, yet they seem not to be such as they 
should be, of that judgment and wit to build these houses in such sort as 
they are. * * * They travel eight days’ journey unto certain plains 
lying towards the North Sea. In this country there are certain skins, well 
dressed; and they dress them and paint them where they kill their oxen 
[buffalo]; for so they say themselves.”! 
On the fourth day after the capture of Cibola, Coronado further says: 
‘They set in order all their goods and substance, their women and children, 
and fled to the hills, leaving their towns as it were abandoned, wherein 
remained very few of them.”? 
It will be observed that the phrases ‘‘great houses of stone,” and 
‘“‘go0d houses of three, or four, or five lofts high,” not only describe the 
1 Hakluyt, vol. iii, p. 377. 2Ib., vol. iii, p. 379. 
