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Show FURTHER REFERENCE TO EARLY RELATIONS. 489 lated to me by those who have been on the Canal. The having seen, as the relation says, people with the hair crisp and others who have it straight, that also have I seen myself; and the pointing out of their land toward the west would be for the island of Santa Cruz, which lies in this direction, though the discoverers could not discern this and others of the Canal, especially in a fog, as is now also the case. The tents which that relation says they saw in the land have connection with those which I saw of sewn tule among the Cobajais, of which I make mention in the Diary. It also says that they pitched the camp ( sentaron el real) near Moqui, and that after six days' journey they came upon the Llanos de la Zibola," which the nations that they called Baqueros inhabited. Being myself among the Yabipais nigh unto Moqui they gave me information of the Acquiora nation, whose name either is the same or bespeaks quite a hint of ( dize mucha elusion d) Baqueros, indicating to me its habitation toward the north. The flax " and " Not meaning any of the plains about Cibola ( Zuni), but the Plains of the Buffalo ( cibola). The Baqueros of the text, or Vaqueros, were Indians who hunted the buffalo, the term being collective, not distinctive. " Acquiora" of the text seems to stand for Baquiopa. wRio del Lino, or Flax river, it will be remembered, was a name of the Colorado Chiquito in Coronado's time. But our author's commentary is becoming so confused and beside the |
