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describe the land and its inhabitants. Continuing his pilgrimage through 1535 to 1536. more than twenty months, sheltered from cold, first by deer skins, then by buffalo robes, he and his companions passed through Texas as far north as the Canadian River, then along Indian paths, crossed the watershed to the valley of the Del Norte; and borne up by cheerful courage against hunger, want of water on the plains, cold and weariness, perils from beasts and perils from red men, the voyagers went frve up the hope of discovering an opulent country, on the twenty-third of April, 1541, Coronado, with the false Indian as the pilot of his detachment, began a march to the north-east. Crossing the track of Cabeza de Vaca, in the valley of the Canadian river, they came in nine days upon plains, which seemed to have no end, and where countless numbers of prairie dogs peered on them from their burrows. Many pools of water were found impregnated with salt, and bitter to the taste. The wanderings o