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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
d at Zuñi from a province called Cicuye, seventy leagues towards the east, in the country of cattle whose hair was soft and curling like wool. A party under Hernando Alvarado went with the returning Indians. In five days they reached Acoma, which was built on a high cliff, accessible only by a ladder of steps cut in the rock, havugh to grow maize, and cisterns to catch the rain and snow. Here the Spaniards received gifts of game, deer skins, bread, and maize. Three other days brought Alvarado to Tiguex, in the valley of the Del Norte, just below Albuquerque, perhaps not far from Isletta; A comparison of the letters of Coronado and of Jaramillo in nding in gold and silver, and watered by tributaries of a river which was two leagues wide. The Spanish camp for the winter was established near Tiguex; there Alvarado brought the Indian who professed to know the way to Quivira; there Coronado himself appeared, after a tour among eight more southern villages; and there his army