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Show 486 REFERENCE TO OTHER EARLY RELATIONS. since, besides ( the fact) that all the Yabipais I have seen are dressed in antelope ( skins) and the Moquinos in mantles, the Jamajabs informed me that all the people that they have to the north ( of themselves) go clothed. The report of the houses and walled pueblos of which the Indians informed the Reverend Padre Fray Juan de la Asumpcion is also so conclusive that I find not any difficulty in believing it, considering that in the pueblo of Oraibe I saw houses of two or three stories, and that as, on the side where I entered in it, they had no window, they resembled walls rather than houses, as is already said in the Diary. Such is the verisimilitude which I find in the cited relation. 80 I find also a notice of this river in the, to me, verific relation of the journey of Captain Francisco Vazquez Coronado, 81 made in the year of 1540 [ and 1541] by order of the Senor Don Antonio de Men-doza. 82 I call this relation very verific, for all that it " This note, discussing the vexed question of what Relacion Garces cites, goes over to p. 509, which see. * This very long note on the Coronado expedition goes over to the end of Garces' text, pp. 513- 21, which see. " The first viceroy of New Spain, born about 1485, died at Lima, Peru, July 21, 1552. He was of noble birth, son of the second Conde de Tendilla, and among his titles was that of Marques de Mondejar. His appointment to the viceroyalty is said to have been formally made out April 17, 1535; he entered |