The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

HIS JO URNE YINGS.
The inhabitants were numerous and intelligent. The
women wore petticoats, or dresses, of deer-skin, but the)
had no idea of Christianity. They called Niza,Soyota," or
man come down from heaven, and would try to touch his
garments. They informed him that he would soon come to
a great plain, full of large towns, which were inhabited by
a people clad in cotton, wearing gold rings and ear-ringos,
and "using little blades of the same metal to scrape the
sweat from their bodies."
About this time the negro Esteva, who had been giving
the good father "great trouble on account of qisconducting
himself towards the women of the country, and only thought
of enriching himself," was sent away by Father Niza on a
voyage of discovery, accompanied by some "emancipated
Indians."
Four days after Esteva's departure, he dispatched two
messengers to Father Niza, acquainting him with the discovery of a wonderful city called Cibola.
These messengers the good father called pintados, because
their faces, breasts, and arms were painted. They told
him that a man might travel in thirty days to this great
city of Cibola, which was the first of the seven cities.
They also informed him that they often went there after
"turquoise and ox-hides," which they received as "wage
for tilling the ground." They said that the inhabitants of
Cibola dressed in "gowns of cotton down to the feet, with
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