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 MILLS OF CIBOLA.
contrary, save only the names of the cities and the great
houses of stone. The seven cities are seven towns, all made
of these kind of many-storied houses. They all exist, and
within four leagues of each other, and are called the kingdom of Cibola."
He further says, "They eat the best cakes I ever saw,
and have the finest order and way of grinding,. One woman
of this country will grind as much as four women of Mexico. That which these people worship, as far as we hitherto can learn, is the water; for they say it causeth the corn
to grow, and maintaineth their lives."
Becoming tired of the inactive life at Zuni, Coronado
determined to start forth in the hope of finding yet undiscovered territory. With this object in view he started
eastward, into the valley of the Rio Grande.
He soon came to Acoma, or, as he calls it, "Acuco," a
town on an exceedingly "stroing hill," four leagues from
which he met with a "new kind of oxen," * "very wild
and fierce, of which the first day they killed four score.
which supplied the army with flesh,- for all the way was
as full of crooked-backed oxen as the mountain-sierras in
Spain are of sheep."
"Coronado now took measures," says the Abbe Domenech, "to push his conquest, 1)by i'king possession of the
province of Tiguex, on the Rio Grande." This province he
* Buffalo.
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