[71] Castañeda, i. cap. xxii. It is unmistakable. Compare Simpson, Coronado's March, p. 339. Vetancurt, Crónica, etc., p. 319. "Este es el último pueblo hácia el norte." Jean Blaeu, Géographie, etc., p. 62.
[72] This is equally definite. Castañeda, ii. cap. v. p. 177. "Between Cicuyé and the province of Quirix, there exists a small very well fortified village which the Spaniards have named Ximera, and another one which appears to have been very large." This shows that the Spaniards went from Pecos by the San Cristóbal cañon.
[73] To-day Tezuque, Nambé, Santa Clara, San Juan, San Ildefonso, Pojuaque, and, besides, Cuyamunque in ruins.
[74] The Piros were totally dispersed during the intertribal wars of 1680-89. Niel, p. 104. Senecu, near Mesilla, is a Piros pueblo, founded by Fray Antonio de Arteaga in 1630. Fray Balthasar de Medina, Chrónica de la Provincia de S. Diego de México de Religiosos Descalzos de N. S. P. S. Francisco de la Nueva-España, México, 1682, lib. iv. cap. vii. fol. 168. Vetancurt, Crónica, p. 309. It is therefore a Spanish "colony," and not an original pueblo.
[75] Castañeda, i. cap. ix., ii. cap. iii. iv. p. 183, vii. p. 188. Fray Marcos de Niza, pp. 274-276, Jaramillo, pp. 368, 369.
[76] Antonio Espejo, Viaje, etc. Vetancurt, Crónica, etc., pp. 302, 303.
[77] Vetancurt, Crónica, etc., trat. iii. cap. iv. pp. 302, 303-305, cap. vi. pp. 324, 325.
[78] Espejo, Viaje, etc.
[79] Coronado's March, pp. 336-339. Don José Cortes, Memorias sobre las Provincias del Norte de Nueva-España, 1799. MSS. of the library of Congress, fol. 87.
[80] Coronado, Letter of Oct. 20, 1541, p. 354. Castañeda, ii. cap. viii. p. 194, Jaramillo, pp. 376, 377.