A history of the United States for schools . tion, and, in 1528, Panfilo de Narvaezstarted with four ships and four hundred men to explorethese coasts. The expedition got scattered; Narvaez andmany of his men were drowned at the mouth of the Mis-sissippi River; others got ashore and were captured bythe Indians. Four of these captives—the treas- Adven-urer, Cabeza de Vaca, with two Spanish sailors cabez°a deand one negro — had wonderful adventures. ^^^^•These Indians had never seen white men or black men,and they regarded their captives as supernatural beingsor great wizards ; so they did not k
A history of the United States for schools . tion, and, in 1528, Panfilo de Narvaezstarted with four ships and four hundred men to explorethese coasts. The expedition got scattered; Narvaez andmany of his men were drowned at the mouth of the Mis-sissippi River; others got ashore and were captured bythe Indians. Four of these captives—the treas- Adven-urer, Cabeza de Vaca, with two Spanish sailors cabez°a deand one negro — had wonderful adventures. ^^^^•These Indians had never seen white men or black men,and they regarded their captives as supernatural beingsor great wizards ; so they did not kill them, but carriedthem about in their wanderings. In the course of eightyears Vaca and his comrades traveled over 2,000 miles,keeping Vestward until they reached the Gulf of Call- 44 COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA. Ch. III. fornia, where they found Spanish friends from the course of their wanderings they heard storiesabout Zuni and other pueblos far to the northward. In1539, the Spanish viceroy of Mexico sent a monk named. Coronado. Marcos de Nizza to inquire into the truth of thesestories, and this monk reached a hill from which he couldsee the Zuni pueblos. The next year Franciscode Coronado started northward with 300 Span-iards and 800 Mexican Indians ; he discovered the GrandCanon of the Colorado River, visited the Moqui and Zuni ^ Wolpi is one of the fortified of the Moquis of northeasternArizona. Situated on the summit of a steep hill, it is very difficult for anenemy to approach it. The illustration shows the way in which cattleand sheep are penned. The gardens are down in the irrigated fieldsbelow, and all the water has to be carried up the hill in jars; this isregularly done by the women. The buildings are entered at the top byladders, and the interior of a room is represented in the*illustrationon page 9. 23, 24. THE SPANIARDS. 45 pueblos, and went as far, perhaps, as some point on thesouth fork of the Platte River, or possibly some
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