A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . on, the Spaniards donot appear to have made further explorations along thecoast north of the Panuco River for several years ; butthey were engaged in extending their settlements in theinterior of Mexico and along the Pacific coast as far asLower California, exploring the interior as far as themodern State of Sinaloa (sen-a-lo-a). These expeditionswere undertaken by Cortez, Diego de Guzman (de-a-goda goz-man), Nuiio de Guzman (non-yo da goz-man),and others, and were continued more or less successfullyfrom 1521 to 1536. During t
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . on, the Spaniards donot appear to have made further explorations along thecoast north of the Panuco River for several years ; butthey were engaged in extending their settlements in theinterior of Mexico and along the Pacific coast as far asLower California, exploring the interior as far as themodern State of Sinaloa (sen-a-lo-a). These expeditionswere undertaken by Cortez, Diego de Guzman (de-a-goda goz-man), Nuiio de Guzman (non-yo da goz-man),and others, and were continued more or less successfullyfrom 1521 to 1536. During these incursions towards thenorth, the Spaniards continually heard of a rich and .populous country still farther north, which was said tocontain inhabited and walled cities, ci\ilized people, , , „, 1 r An Indian Warrior and much wealth in gold, silver, and precious stones. This far-off country was sometimes called Cibola (se-vo-lii), sometimes Oiiivira (ke-ve-ra), sometimes Cigicatan (se-gwa- tan) ; and always the Seven Great Cities were the point of search, 37. Cibola andthe SevenGreat Cities 38 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. Pkrioo I. The Stories of those fabled regions dazzled the imaginations Spanish ^^^ ^l^^^ adventurcrs with visions of untold wealth and splendor, Domination ii r i • —, to be found somewhere in the mystic north. In all of their TO explorations in the New World, the Spaniards were haunted by 1821 the idea of finding a passage by water through the continent from east to west, furnishing a short route to India. This delu- •• Straits of sion appears in all of the narratives of those and even later times, ^^ under the names of the secret of the Strait, the Northern Mystery, and the Straits of j,^ 1527, Nufio de Guzmau was governor of Panuco, and in his hunt for riches and slaves he claimed to have crossed thelower Rio Grande del Norte into what is now Texas. He speaksof having captured an Indian who belonged to a tribe calledTcjas (ta-yas),
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