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Stephen, stating that wonderful accounts had been told him 

 of a great city, called Cevola, thirty days' jom^ney distant. 

 The negro pushed on without waiting as he was ordered, and 



in making the discovery of that people, who finally 



killed him 



Upon the same day that Nica receiyed these messages 

 from Stephen, there came to him three Indians of those 

 ^ whom he called Pintados, because he saw their faces, breasts, 

 and arms painted. ' ' These dwell further up into the country, 

 towards the east, and some of them border upon the seven 

 cities."* With these Pintados he departed from Yacupa 

 "Upon Easter Tuesday ; and having travelled three days north- 

 ward, the way that Stephen had gone before him, he was 

 informed that a man might travel in thirty days to the city 

 of Cevola, which is the first of the seven. He was told also 

 that, besides the seven cities, there were three other king- 

 doms, called Marata, Acus, and Totonteac. He asked of these 

 Indians why they travelled to Cevola, so far from their 

 houses. They said that they went for tui-quoises, ox-hides^ 

 and other things, which they received in payment for labour 

 in tilling the ground.t They described the dress of the 

 inhabitants of Cevola to be " a gown of cotton down to the 

 foot, with a button at the neck, and a long string hanging- 

 down at the same ; and that the sleeves of these gowns are 

 as broad beneath as above." J They gird themselves with 

 gii'dlcs of turquoises,! and besides these, " some wear good. 

 apparel; others, hides of kine,|| very well dressed^" Hre 



Without doubt these wer«-Papagos^, 



t A strong proof that they vere Papagos, and not Plmas, or any other tribe, 



X "This description is simply that of a Pima cotton blanket, thrown oyer the 

 shoulders and pinned by a wooden button at the neck. The natiural folds of 

 tills garment would produce * sleeves as broad beneath as aboye.' "—'iWhipjyJe.) 



§ Probably Pima or Zuni belt»> ornamented with green stones, 



II Buckskin or buffalo robes. 



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