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.

CHAPTER XVII.
FTER forty days of toil and( priva tions of all kinds, Coronado arrived
k at a place he calls "Chichilticall,"
which signifies Red Town, a name
which seems to have been given by Coronado himself, on
account of "a very large house there of red color, inhabited
by an entire tribe that came from towards Cibola, where
the last desert begins."
At this point Coronado's troubles seemed to have begun
in earnest. He lost some of his horses, as well as a number
of his men, for want of food; and his army became greatly
discouraged, and clamored loudly to return to Culican.
But Coronado was made of no such stuff, and was bouiid
to proceed. After the delay of a week at Red Town, he with
his followers continued the march. In two weeks' time they
had arrived at a point within twenty miles of Cibola.
Here for the first time they met several natives of the
kingdom; but they, becoming frightened, immnediately took
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