222 NEW TEACKS IN NOETH AMEEIOA. 



Juhey foiind mines, of whieli tlicy liad been informed, and took 

 out with their own hands rich metals containing silver. The 

 mines, which were on a broad yein, were in a mountain f 

 easily ascended by an open way to the same. In the yicinity 

 of the mines there were numerous Indian pueblos. ' ' Here- 



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about tlicy found t^v^o rivers :J: of a reasonable bigness^ upon 

 tbe banks wbereof grew many vines bearing excellent grapes^ 



* Mohotze (Moqi 

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Captain Sitgreayes, 



Mountain, near Tvliicli are lar£?e ruins 



Cliiquito (EIo del Lino) 



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departed from Cibola^ and having travelled twenty-eight 



leagues west, found another great province* of about fifty thou- ^^' 



sand souls. As they approached a town called Zaguato, the ^- 



multitude, with their caciquoS; met them with great joy, and ^ 



poured maize upon the ground for the horses to walk upon, J^ 



and they presented the captaiii with forty thousand mantles of Gr 



cotton, white and coloured, and many hard towels with tassels ^^ 



at the four corners, and rich metals which seemed to contain P^ 



much silver. Thence travelling due west forty-five leagues, i of 



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and great groyes of walnut trees, and mucb flax, like tbat of fa 



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Captain Espejo tben returned to Zuni. Thence lie deter- J] 



mined to ascend still bigher up the Eio del TiJ'orte. Haying 



trayellcd sixty leagues towards the proyince of Quires, twelye J 



leagues further east they found a proyince of Indians, called 



Hubatcs, containing twenty -fiye thousand people well dressed ^ 



in colom-ed mantles of cotton and hides. They had many ti 



mountains full of pines and cedars, and the houses of their g 

 towns were four or fiye stories high. Here they had notice I 

 of another province, distant one day's journey from thence, 

 inhahited hy Indians, called Tamos (Toas), and containing 



