[396] That is, the west coast of the Gulf of California.
[397] During 1905 the waters of the Rio Colorado were diverted westward below Yuma and are now (1906) flowing into the Salton Sink, or Imperial Valley, in southern California, forming an immense lake.
[398] Doubtless the Opatas, whose poisoned arrows are often alluded to by later Spanish writers. See, for example, the Rudo Ensayo (ca. 1762), (San Augustin, 1863); also Guiteras's translation in Records of the American Catholic Historical Society, V. No. 2 (Philadelphia, June, 1894).
[399] The upper part of the Rio San Pedro (which rises in northern Sonora), according to recent studies by Mr. James Newton Baskett.
[400] The present Sia, a small pueblo on the Rio Jemez. In 1583 Sia was one of a group of five pueblos which Antonio de Espejo called Cunames or Punames. It suffered severely by the Pueblo revolt a century later, and is now reduced to about a hundred people who have great difficulty in gaining a livelihood, owing to lack of water for irrigation.
[401] That is, the Rio Grande.
[402] The "province" occupied by the Queres or Keresan Indians, consisting of the pueblos of Cochiti, San Felipe, and Santo Domingo, of to-day—all on the Rio Grande. Sia and Santa Ana are and were also Queres villages in Coronado's time, but as these were not on the Rio Grande, they may not have been included in Castañeda's group. When Espejo visited the Queres in 1583, they occupied only five pueblos on the Rio Grande; now only the three above mentioned are inhabited.
[403] See p. 337, note 1.
[404] Evidently the Harahey of other chroniclers, which has been identified with the Pawnee country of southern Nebraska.
[405] Possibly the Kansa or Kaw tribe, after whom the state of Kansas is named.