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5f?r«^ ^0W56?5 0/ s^o«6, whereof there are about two hundred 

 encompassed with walls, atid I think thai with the rest ( 

 the houses ivhich are not so walled there may he together 

 five hundredP In other words, tlie conqueror found neither 

 silver, gold, nor precious stones, but he gives a very accurate 

 description of the appearance, dress, and mode of living of 

 the people, which does not differ in any particular from that 

 of the present day. " The seven cities are seven small towns, 

 all made with these kind of (many-storied) houses that I 

 speak of; they stand all within four leagues together, and 

 are called collectively the kingdom of Cevola." . . . . " They 

 eat the best cakes I ever saw, and they have the finest order 

 and way of grinding, so that one Indian woman of this 

 country will grind as much as four women of Mexico." .... 

 ' ' That which these Indians worship, as far as we hitherto 

 can learn, is the water, for they say it causeth their corn to 

 grow and maintaineth their life." As regards the answers 

 they gave him about other cities, Coronado says that he thinks 

 they do not tell him the truth. They said that they kiUed 

 the negro, Stephen, because " he touched their women." 

 J After leaving Zuni, Yasquez de Coronado travelled east- 

 ward into the Eio Grande valley, and discovered, or rather 

 re-discovered, the pueblos built upon that stream. Amongst 

 these were Acuco (Acoma), "a town upon an exceeding 

 strong hillj" Tiguex (Pecos), Quivera, Axa, and Cicuic, four 

 leagues from which they met with a new kind of oxen 

 (buffalo), wild and fierce, whereof the fii'st day they killed 

 fourscore, which sufficed the army for flesh. "All the way 

 was 'as full of crooked-backed oxen as the mountain sieiTas 

 in Spain are of sheep." Ko where did they find gold, silver, 

 or precious gems; and in the end of March, 1542, Yasquez 

 Coronado, after receiving a severe fall from his horse while 



