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Show 490 FURTHER REFERENCE TO EARLY RELATIONS. hemp cited in the relation as having been seen, already have I left it said in the Diary that I also met with the same; and considering that thus far I find that relation so conformable with that which I have seen and experienced, I do not hesitate to give it credence. It goes on to say that from the place where they halted in the nation of the Baqueros the soldiers set forth toward the northwest [ sic], and having gone six days' journey descried on the border of a great river a populous city, with houses of three stories surrounded with high walls, as they could distinguish from the top of a hill close by the settlement, called Quevira, of the Teguayo nation. They may be truthful, in my humble opinion ( en mi corto entender), both this and the other relation, and there may really exist the great river cited and the populations referred to. A part thereof has been related to me by an Apache there is in these provinces. Upon these advices, those that I have acquired of the Comanches, and the knowledge that, as I have said, the Chemeguabas and Yutas are their enemies, it appears to me that the inhabitants of that large river and of those settlements point that it seems hardly worth pursuing. He appears to be dreaming, or writing from vague memory of traditions or relations of the Coronado period. Quivira, presently mentioned, was of course in Kansas; but it may be found on maps in almost any part of the western and southwestern United States. |