The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska Page: 234 of 288
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THE JOURNEY OF CORONADO
have mud walls. The villages have for the
most part the walls of the houses; the houses
are too good for Indians, especially for these,
since they are brutish and have no decency
in anything except in their houses.
For food they have much corn and beans
and melons, and some fowls, like those of
Mexico, and they keep these more for their
feathers than to eat, because they make long
robes of them, since they do not have any
cotton; and they wear cloaks of heniquen (a
fibrous plant), and of the skins of deer, and
sometimes of cows.
Their rites and sacrifices are somewhat
idolatrous, but water is what they worship
most, to which they offer small painted sticks
and feathers and yellow powder made of
flowers, and usually this offering is made to
springs. Sometimes, also, they offer such
turquoises as they have, although poor ones.
From the valley of Culiacan to Cibola it
is 240 leagues in two directions. It is north
to about the thirty-fourth-and-a-half degree,
and from there to Cibola, which is nearly
the thirty-seventh degree, toward the north-
east.
Having talked with the natives of Cibola
about what was beyond, they said that there
were settlements toward the west. Fran-
cisco Vazquez then sent Don Pedro de Tobar
to investigate, who found seven other vil-
lages, which were called the province of
Tuzan; this is 35 leagues to the west. The
villages are somewhat larger than those of
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Compilation of translated texts describing the explorations of Coronado and his companions as they traveled in Central American and parts of present-day United States, with some supplementary historical notes for context.
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Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952. The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth3161/m1/234/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .