60 INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST. 
at the Rio Grande, probably near Bernalillo, where there 
were villages similar to those of Cibola. Coronado 
joined him here with the main army and passed the 
winter in one of the villages. The natives, at first 
friendly, offended by the constant demands for food 
and clothing and by the ill-treatment of their women, 
drove off the horses and mules of the Spaniards. The 
village involved was attacked and some of the men sur- 
rendered. The officer in charge prepared two hundred 
stakes for these prisoners but when the Indians saw 
they were to be roasted alive they seized the stakes and 
renewed the fight with the result that they all died more 
agreeable deaths. During the winter, the Rio Grande 
was explored to the north and south and the various 
pueblos described. A captive from the Plains Indians, 
called by the Spaniards the Turk, told of a still more 
wonderful country, Quivira. In the spring a division 
of the army started to visit this country with Turk as a 
guide. They soon came to open country where there 
were vast herds of buffalo and Indians following them 
with skin tents and dogs that transported their property. 
After weeks of travel Turk was discredited and another 
Indian led them to some unimportant villages of agri- 
cultural Indians. The distances and directions would 
have brought them to the neighborhood of eastern 
Kansas. 
After a stay of twenty-five days they returned to the 
Rio Grande where they spent the winter. Coronado 
fell from his horse and was seriously hurt. A council 
decided upon an immediate return to Mexico and all 
went gladly except two monks who chose to remain 
behind and preach, but they soon perished at the hands 
of the natives. The expectations of those who had 
organized the expedition had been great. They had 
been looking for another Mexico or Peru with great 
