[376] The Giralda, or celebrated bell-tower of the Cathedral of Seville, which is 275 feet high.
[377] The report of Alvarado, translated by George Parker Winship, is published in the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (Washington, 1896).
[378] This is the pueblo of Acoma, about fifty miles east of Zuñi. It occupies the summit of the same rocky mesa, 357 feet high, that it did in Coronado's time. The name here given is doubtless an attempt to give the Zuñi designation, Hákukia, from Ako, the name by which it is known to the Acoma people. The present population is 650. Acoma has the distinction of being the oldest continuously occupied settlement in the United States.
[379] The slope referred to is an immense sand-dune. The horse trail did not exist in Coronado's time, having been built by Fray Juan Ramirez, who established a mission at Acoma in 1629.
[380] The Acomas still obtain their water supply from this source.
[381] Tiguex. See p. 317, note.
[382] Pecos. See p. 329, note 2.
[383] See p. 308, note 3.
[384] This name has always been a problem to students of the expedition, and various attempts have been made to determine its application. Jaramillo, one of Coronado's captains, applies the name to Acoma, and indeed its final syllables are the same as the native name of Acoma. In the heading to Chapter 11 Castañeda erroneously makes Tutahaco synonymous with Tusayan. The description indicates that the Tigua village of Isleta and others in its vicinity on the Rio Grande in the sixteenth century were intended.
[385] This Eldorado is seemingly a combination of falsehood and misinterpretation. The Turk's only means of communication were signs; and we shall see later on that he deliberately deceived the Spaniards for the purpose of leading them astray. The name acochis here given is an aid in the identification of the mysterious province of Quivira. See p. 337, note 1.