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where the boat was anchored, contending for the privilege of 
securing the rope with which the boat was towed. “And we 
gave it to them,” says Alarcon, “with a good will, thanking 
God for the good provision which He gave us to go up the 
river/’ ' . 
The interpreter frequently addressed the natives as he went 
forward, and at last, on Tuesday night, a man was discovered 
who understood him. This man was taken into the boat, and 
Alarcon, always true to 
his trust, asked him 
whether he had seen or 
heard of any people in 
the country like him¬ 
self, hoping to secure 
some clue to Coronado, 
“He answered me no, 
saying that he had some 
time heard of old men 
that very far from that 
country there were 
other white men, and 
with beards like us, and 
that he knew nothing 
else. I asked him also 
whether he knew a place 
called Cibola and a river 
called Totonteac, and 
he answered me no.” 
Coronado meanwhile 
had arrived at Cibola 
on July 7th (or loth) and had therefore been among the villages 
of the Rio Grande del Norte nearly two months. The route to 
these towns from the lower Colorado, that is, by the great inter¬ 
tribal highway of southern Arizona, followed the Gila River, 
destined afterwards to be traversed by the wandering trappers, 
by the weary gold-seeker bound for California, and finally, for 
a considerable distance, by the steam locomotive. But it was 
an unknown quantity at the time of Alarcon’s visit, so far as 
Komohoats. 
A Pai Ute Boy—S. W. Nevada. 
Photograph by J. K. Hillers, U. S. Geol. Sur. 
