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: 263 of 288
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THE JOURNEY OF CORONADO
have many houses two stories high. All
the rest, and these also, have corn and beans
and melons, skins, and some long robes of
feathers which they braid, joining the feathers
with a sort of thread; and they also make
them of a sort of plain weaving with which
they make the cloaks with which they pro-
tect themselves. They all have hot rooms
underground, which, although not very clean,
are very warm.1 They raise and have a very
little cotton, of which they make the cloaks
which I have spoken of above. This river
comes from the northwest and flows about
southeast, which shows that it certainly
flows into the North sea.
Leaving this settlement2 and the said
river, we passed two other villages whose
names I do not know,3 and in four days
came to Cicuique, which I have already men-
tioned. The direction of this is toward the
northeast. From there we came to another
river, which the Spaniards named after
Cicuique, in three days; if I remember
rightly, it seems to me that we went rather
toward the northeast to reach this river
where we crossed it, and after crossing this,
we turned more to the left hand, which
would be more to the northeast, and began
1All references to hot rooms or estufas are of
course to be construed to mean the kivas or cere-
monial chambers.
2 Tiguex is here doubtless referred to.
3 One of the villages whose names Jaramillo did
not know was probably the Ximena (Galisteo) of
Castafeda.
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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/m1/263/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .