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armed and in a warlike array, or so it appeared; and so our people
attacked the town. Eight hundred men who were inside defended
it a good while. They slightly wounded Francisco Vazquez and
many other Spaniards; but at the end they came out in flight.
Our people entered, and named it Granada, in honor of the vice-
roy, who is a native of that place in Spain.
Cibola has about two hundred houses of earth and rough timber,
four and five stories high, with the entrances like scuttles on a ship.
They mount to them on ladders of sticks, which they remove at
night and in times of war. Each house has before it a cavern where,
as in a hot-room,6 they take shelter in the winters, which are
long and very snowy, although the place does not lie more than
thirty and a half degrees from the equator; were it not for the
mountains, it would have the climate of Seville. The famous
seven cities of Fray Marcos of Nice, which lie in a space of six
leagues, have a population of about four thousand warriors. The
riches of their realm are such that they have almost nothing
to eat or to clothe themselves with, and the snow lasts seven
months.7 However, they make some cloaks of the skins of rabbits,
hare, and deer; they obtain a very little cotton. They wear shoes
of hide, and in winter a sort of boot reaching up. to the knee. The
women of quality are clothed down to their feet. They go girdled,
and braid the hair and encircle the head with it above the ears.
The earth is sandy and produces little-I believe because of their
indolence; but where they plant, it produces maize, beans, squash,
and fruits; and they even raise turkeys, although not everywhere
there.
Viewing the scarcity of people and of signs of wealth, the soldiers
gave very few thanks to the friars who came with them, and who
had eulogized that land of Cibola; and so as not to return to
Mexico without accomplishing anything and with empty hands,
they decided to go beyond, where they were told it was a better
land. Thus they went to Acuco,s a place on a very strong peak,
and from here Don Garci L6pez de Cardenas went with his
6Eastufa.
7The winter of 1540-1541 was unusually cold.
SThe famous Queres pueblo of Acoma, oldest continuously inhabited
settlement in the United States.350
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