Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . •^A. .4^ GENERAL HISTORY. 25 The course is not mentioned, l)ut from subsequent events it must have been generallytoest. He despatched Don Pedro de Tobar, Avith seventeen horsemen, four foot-soldiers,and a friar, to explore it. On reaching it, they found the Indians in possession ofcultivated fields. As soon as they were aware of the presence of an enemy, they
Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . •^A. .4^ GENERAL HISTORY. 25 The course is not mentioned, l)ut from subsequent events it must have been generallytoest. He despatched Don Pedro de Tobar, Avith seventeen horsemen, four foot-soldiers,and a friar, to explore it. On reaching it, they found the Indians in possession ofcultivated fields. As soon as they were aware of the presence of an enemy, theyassembled in a body, armed with arrows, clubs, and bucklers. They drew a mirk onthe ground, and forbad the Spaniards passing it; but this only served as a signal forTobar to advance, and he and his followers slew great numbers of them. Afterthis, the Tusayans submitted and presented their invaders with cotton-stuffs, tanned-hides, flour, pbe-apples, native fowls, maize, and torquoises. Such is, in part, theexaggerated language of the narrative of Castenada. Tobar was now, doubtless, at theseven villages of the modern Moqui. They told him of a great river, at twenty daysdistance, which he would reach after crossing a desert inhabited by
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