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Show Hawikuh---then a sizeable Arizona-New Mexico fl.,,:-, _, pueblo; but, now a ruin near boundary line. Fray Marcos did not visit the village in person. - the present ;".:{;t: .' He had been debut had sent Lit tained, probably by his priestly duties, in Sonora; stephen forward with instructions to keep him well Should prospects for ftnding the desired wealth become tle infonned. very bright Reports sent to encamp and await the arrival of the Priest. back were increasingly glowing; and the Father soon set out on the The negro did not await the arrival of trail of his lieutenant. he was the priest, but pressed rapidly onward to the village. We His reception by the people of Hawikuh was by no means cordial, from elevated had been black slaver.y man the recently may note that This may have to a position in which he was a commander of nen, and and him head" made pompous; Rl1d his overbearing tlgone to his ostentatious bells, anklets, et<::.;. which he atire---cap, f'eat.her-s', befitting his new status, may have been disgusting to the Zunis. Then, too, these aborigines, like all others, were ver,y sup erstitious; and the black man such as they had never seen, may have considered Tales that he im been to them the very embodiment of the "devil". he was forbidden but be not true; mediately demanded women mayor may and attacked soon was and put to death. to encamp within the city, precipitately. It was not long until they wt the incoming Fray Marcos, whom they urged to immediately The Father was unwilling to do this at the time; reutrn to Mexico. until he could see the pueQlo and insisteqthat they press forward he saw in those mud walls that what wonder in the distance. We·may enclosed stores of·greqt gave him a feeling of certainty that -they brilliant sun's the rays in the atmosphere wealth. morning PO'ssibly in the mud, and stone of from reflected flinty desert of the pieces is said that when it the Whatever st his imagination'afiret• cause, His Indian comrades fled he arrived in Mexico with his report, survt vors of the Narvaez; expedition. Vasquez his tales rivalled those of the de Coronado It The next expedition was sent to Qibola in the Spring of 1540. Vas Francisco of command the under men consisted of 300 or 400 placed the for well and conquest armed well and was equipped quez de Coronado; Coronado was not a very rich man on his own; but his wife of Cibola. Beatriz Estrada Coronado, "had the money"; and the commander seems to She was the reputed grand-daughter of King on this. have drawn freely Ferd of spain. Perhaps every school-child will remember the story of Queen I samella , the wif of King Ferdinand, who pawned her jewels to raise the money for Cblumbus' - voyage of discovery of America. Coronado arrived at Hawikuh early in the Spring of 1540 to enable him to ha ve his most important trips of disco ry in the Little Col Of course the Indians objected to his en orado Valley the same year. their scanty attire, and with primitive their but in into tr.r pueblos; been used by their ancestors for as the same had weapons perhaps thousands of years, they were no match for the well-trained armored and armed Spaniards ,some of whlbm had seen service not only in Mexico and Peru, but also on the battlefields of Europe. Coronado was told of the Moqui Indians, a few days journey to the northwestward of Zuni; and shortly after his conquest of Ci oola, he |
