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.

THE INiHABITANTS.
a button at the neck; that they girded themselves with girdles of turquoises, or hide of kine," all of which reports
so greatly pleased the good father, that he determined to
follow on after Esteva.
He continued his journey for five days, "'always finding
inhabited places, and great hospitality."
Before reaching the desert, he arrived at a very pleasant
town, where he found many people, both men and women,
"clothed in cotton, and some ill ox-hides, which generally
they take for better apparel than that of cotton." He says: -
"All the people of this village go in caconados;" that
is to say, with turquoises halnging at their nostrils and ears,
which they call caconias. The lord of the village, and others
beside him, were "apparelled in cotton, in caconados, with
a collar of turquoises about their necks."
They gave him "conies," quails, maize, and nuts of pinetrees, and offered him turquoises, ox-hides, and fair vessels
to drink in, which he declined.
They informed him that beside the seven cities of Cibola,
there were three other kingdoms, called Marata, Acus, and
Totonteac, and that in Totonteac were great quantities of
woollen cloth, such as he himself wore, made from the fleece
of wild beasts, which were about the size of the two spaniels
that he carried with him.
The next day he entered the desert; and when he came
to dine he found "bowers made, and victuals in abundance."
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