. The trail book . e and looked, said the Princess. One ofher women brought a casket carved from a solidlump of cypress, on her knee. Around the sides ofthe casket and on the two ends ran a decoration ofwoodpeckers heads and the mingled sign of thesun and the four quarters which the Corn Womanhad drawn for Dorcas on the dust of the dancing-floor. The Princess lifted the lid and ran her fine darkfingers through a heap of gleaming pearls. Therewere many mule loads such as these in the god-house at Talimeco, she said; we filled the casketsof our dead Caciques with them. What is gold thathe should
. The trail book . e and looked, said the Princess. One ofher women brought a casket carved from a solidlump of cypress, on her knee. Around the sides ofthe casket and on the two ends ran a decoration ofwoodpeckers heads and the mingled sign of thesun and the four quarters which the Corn Womanhad drawn for Dorcas on the dust of the dancing-floor. The Princess lifted the lid and ran her fine darkfingers through a heap of gleaming pearls. Therewere many mule loads such as these in the god-house at Talimeco, she said; we filled the casketsof our dead Caciques with them. What is gold thathe should have left all these for the mere rumorof it? 204 THE PEARLS OF COFACHIQUE She was sad for a moment and then stern. Nev-ertheless, I think my aunt, the Cacica, should havemet him. She would have seen that he was a manand would have used mens reasons with him. Shemade Medicine against him as though he were agod, and in the end his medicine was stronger than ours. If you could tell us about it — invited XII HOW THE IRON SHIRTS CAME TO TUSCALOOSA: A TELLING OF THE TRIBUTE ROAD BY THE LADY OF COFACHIQUE THERE was a bloom on the sea like the bloom ona wild grape when the Adelantado left his winterquarters at Anaica Apalache, said the sent Maldonado, his captain, to cruise alongthe Gulf coast with the ships, and struck north to-ward Cofachique. That was in March, i54o, andalready his men and horses were fewer because ofsickness and skirmishes with the Indians. Theyhad for guide Juan Ortiz, one of Narvaezs menwho had been held captive by the Indians theseeight years, and a lad Perico who remembered atrading trip to Cofachique. And what he could notremember he invented. He made Soto believe therewas gold there. Perhaps he was thinking of copper, 206 HOW THE IRON SHIRTS CAME and perhaps, since the Spaniards had made himtheir servant, he found it pleasanter to be in animportant position. They set out by the old sea trail toward Alta-paha, when the buds at the e
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