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river side.* Thus tlie Indians proyided for Mm during four 

 days that the ' ' wiklemess ' ' continued. He then entered a 

 valley, t very well inhabited with people, who were dressed 

 also in cotton rohes, with turquoises pendent from their ears 

 and nostrils, and numerous strings of the same encircling 

 their necks. ■ . ' 



Through this valley, which was inhabited by "a goodly 

 people," he travelled five days' journey, i: The coimtry was 

 "well watered and like a garden," ''abounding in victuals," 

 " sufficient to feed about three thousand horsemen." The 

 boroughs and towns were from a quarter to half a league long. 

 Eere he found a man bom in Cevola (Zufii), having escaped 

 from the governor or lieutenant of the same ; "for the lord of 

 the seven cities liveth and abideth in one of these towns called 

 Abacus (Acoma), and in the rest he appointeth Keutenants 

 under him. This townsman of Cevola is a ivhite man^% of 

 good complexion, somewhat well in years, and of far greater 

 capacity than the inhabitants of this valley, or those left 

 behind." Friar Marco thus describes Cevola /ro??? report: 

 ' It is a great city, inhabited by a great store of people, and 

 having many streets and market-places; in some parts of this 

 City there are certain very great houses, of five stories high, 

 wherein the chief of the city assemble themselves at certain 



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from the Canada del Oro, receiving all the western drainage of the Santa 

 Catarina Mountains, and. like the Eio Santa Cniz, becomes lost in the desert. 



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t Thia was the valley of the Eio Gila. 



t '*He must have crossed over the Salinas (Eio Azul) and ascended that river. 

 It is surprising that ho makes no mention of large tuildings or ' 



% "It is remarkable that at the present day many of the Indians of Zuni are 

 ^hite. Tliey have a fair skin, blue eyes, chestnut or auburn hair, and are 

 q^ite good-looking. They claim to be full-blooded Zuiiians, and have no tra- 

 ditions of intermarriages with any foreign race. The circumstance creates no 

 Burprise among this people, for from time immemorial a similar class of persons 

 tas existed in the tribe."— (TF^tppZe.) 



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