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CHAP. X. 



Quivira. 



Uivira is the next Region accounted of California, largely taken ; yet appear* 

 ingby fome Charts to lie fo vaftly remote, that all ]S{ey> Mexico, Gallicia, 

 pnd other Provinces already mention'd, lie between that and the Ifland. 

 And whereas X{ew Granada is by feveral made a part of lS[ew Mexico 5 yet moft cer- 

 tain it it is, that by fome it is confounded with this Countrey, or at leaft accounted 

 a part thereof, as hereafter fliall more plainly appear, according to the Account of 

 thofe that have moft fully and particularly defcrib'd it. 



Quivira takes up the moft Northern and unknown part of America towards the sia ^ jjl 

 Weft, reaching as far as the fuppofed Straight of Anian aforefaid (if there be any 2^ ip £j£. 

 fuch) or elfe joyning to the Continent olTartary. It is likewife the leaft fruitful biMn ? s - 

 part of all the Weftdndies, efpccially for Corn. Cattel it hath good ftorc, and Pa- 

 fturage indifferent good, the Countrey being for the moft plain and level, and no» 

 thing elfe but Pafturage. The Natives are' few and falvage, living in Hoards or 

 great Companies together, after the manner of the Tartars, to whom they are 

 Neighbors , and (as it is not improbably thought) of their Race. The Men 

 Clothe themfelves moft commonly in that kind of Oxes Hide, elfe where ipoken of 

 under the Name of Taurus Mexicanus. The Women wear little elfe but their Hair, 

 notwithftanding the Countrey, efpecially for one half of the year, is excefllve 

 cold. Their Cattel, though they are much lefs than the ordinary Kinc of Europe, 

 are the chief Suftenance and Employment of the Natives; by Pafturinghuge Herds 

 whereof from place to place, the People live, and maintain aTraffick with other 

 Parts, Yet fome of them inhabit Towns, the chief whereof, as yet difcover'd, feem 

 to be thefe which follow : 



i, Mus, or Acuco, a fmall Town, but featcd in a ftrong dcfenfible place, and ^ e *™ ° f 

 being a great Staple for Cotton, the Territory about it hath been taken for a di- 

 ftinft Province, and by fome call'd T7;e fiingdomof Acuco. 



2. Tignes, a Town featcd upon the Banks of a River bearing the fame Name, 

 and inhabited, it fcems, by a ftout and refolute People, and whom the Spaniards, 

 coming amongft them in the Year 1540. had much ado tomafter : for they endur'd 

 a Siege for the fpacc of fix Weeks 5 and at laft finding themfelves fo ftrongly begirt 

 by their Enemies, that there was no means to cfcape but by Death, or yielding up 

 themfelves, rather than they would fall alive into their hands, they firft buried and 

 fpoil'd all fuch Treafure as they had (which were chiefly Saphircs, and a few othet 

 Gems, that the Countrey afforded) and after that fetting on fire their Hotifhold- 

 ftuff, they took their Wives and Children with them, and made a defperate Salty 

 out upon the Spaniards ; wherein although they were moft of them flain, and trod * 

 under the Horfes Feet, or dro wn'd in pafling the River,yet was it not Without fdme 

 lofs to the Spaniards themfelves : nor would thofe few that were left behind deliver 

 up the Town, till it was fir'd about their Ears, and that they could no longed abide 

 in it. This Town, by all Circumftances, muftneeds be the fame with that before 

 mentioned in Nova Granada, which makes good what we have faid above, vi^. That 

 Neib Granada is by fome confounded with^ or at leaft taken for a part of this Plegioh. 



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