218 NEW TEAOKS IN NORTH AMEEICA. 



tilting at Tigiiex^ returned in disgust witli liis army to 

 Mexico. "It gricTcd Don Antonio de Mendoca yeiy mucli 

 that tlie army returned home j for he had spent about three- 

 score thousand pesos of gokl^ and owed a great part thereof li: 



still" 



The Ahbe Domencc states that as early as the year 1542 

 the Spaniards had gained possession of no less than seyenty- 

 one towns, distributed amongst fourteen proyinces,* of which 

 Tiguex formed the centre^ and Ceyola probably the furthest 

 westward. These proyinces, therefore^ do not include any of 

 the communities celebrated in those days, such as Totontcac, E 

 Moqui, Acus, Marata, &c., which occupied regions far remoyed % 



from the Eio Grande. 



On the 10th of I^oy ember, 1582, another expedition, 

 headed by a citizen of Mexico, called Antonio do Espejo, ^ 

 left the yalley of San Bartolo* (160 leagues from the city of Hi 

 Mexico) to explore the Eio del Norte, and to discoyer the 

 fate of two friars, Lopez and Euyz, who were reported to '^ 

 haye been murdered there. r 



Directing his course northwarclj he met ydth great numbers 

 of Conches (Papagos), who dwelt in villages or hamlets 

 covered with straw. These Indians went nearly naked, 

 cultivated maize, • pumpkins, and melons, and were armed 

 with bows and arrows. They worshipped neither idols nor 

 aught else. The caciques sent information of the expedi- 

 tion from one town to another, and the party was well treated. 

 They passed through the Passaguates, the Zoboses, and the 

 Jumanes, who were called by the Spaniards Patarabueges. 

 ^^ Their yillages are upon the Eio del Korte; their houses 



* The provinces were — Cevola, containing 7 towns ; Tucayan, 7 ; Acuco, 7 ; 

 Tiguex, 12; Cutahaco, 8; Quivix, 7; Sierra Blanca, 7; Ximena, 3; Cicuy^, 1; 

 Hemes, 7; Oji Caliente, 3 ; Yuque-Yunque, 3 ; Braba, 1 ; Chia, 1 : — in all 71. 



