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.

NIZA'S REPORT.
through which war the kingdom of Marata is for the most
part wasted, although it yet continueth and maintaineth war
against the others."
This being the only information we have concerning
the early settlements on the Gila, it is much to be regretted
that Niza's report is not more explicit.
Upon his return, it would seem that he decided to visit the
kingdom of Totonteac, which was undoubtedly comprised
of those towns lying upon the Rio Verde and Pueblo Creek;
but from fear of the Indians, he did not go into it, though
he saw it from afar off, lying in a low valley, "being very
green, and having a most fruitful soil, out of which ran
many streams."
Of course this is mostly conjecture, founded principally
upon the fact that no other ruins are known to exist in the
direction given from Cibola, by Father Niza.
The wonderful reports of Father Niza so fired the patriotic heart of Captain-General-Governor Francisco Vasquez
de Coronado, that he determined to view with his own eyes
"his wonderful city of Cibola. To this end he commenced
at once to organize an expedition, which he proposed to
lead in person, having for its object the conquest of the
kingdom of Cibola.
This army he assembled at the town of Coipostella,
ili the province of Culican, and was composed of one
hundred and fifty horsemen, two hundred archers, the
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