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Canadian, visiting the various pueblos on the neighboring tributaries until they came to the end of Quivira. Here, on the main stream of a fairly large river, probably the Canadian, they again inquired what was ahead of them, to which the Indians replied there was another country called Harahey, a corrupted form of the name given the Wichita Indians, and this region they explained was similar to that they had just seen. "I remained in Quivira," declares Coronado, "for twenty-five days in order to look over and explore the land as well as to see if I might find a way in which to serve Your Majesty. The &uides I ha<l, told me of other provinces beyond. But all I could find out was that there was no gold nor any other precious metal in all that land. The other [provinces] of which they told me consisted only of small pueblos, in many of which they neither sowed nor did they build houses other than tents made of hides."" Coronado liears of De Soto's sm-mvors. But while in Quivira it is interesting to note that he heard of a settlement beyond, where he thought some of the survivors of De Soto's expedition were. "The general wrote a letter," says Jaramillo, "for the governor of Harahey and Quivira, believing he was a Christian from the armies of Florida, who had become lost. The manner of government and the policy [this ruler observed] had made us think so." 65 Further evidence of the prox- imity of the two expeditions which came very close to each other on the edge of the plains is found in Castaneda's account. He says that when the army returned from the plains to Tiguex, after Coronado went on in search of Quivira, an Indian maid joined Captain Juan de Saldivar near the river of Cicuye. She had fled down the ravines nine days before, from other Spaniards, according to what she said: "from which [statement] it may be declared that we were not far from the country they discovered." 66 "An interesting conclusion advanced by Pichardo," declares Hackett, "is that De Soto reached Nacogdoches, or another pueblo adjacent to this one, by the middle of October, I 541, or only a few days after, 'other Spaniards had been there, who had come from the direction of the west or northwest' and there they remained." 67 Although Pichardo is somewhat in error as to the exact "Coronado to the King, October 20, 1541, in Documentos lneditos, XIII, 266; Jaramillo, "Relacion,'" in Ibid., XIV, 312-313. 6SJaramillo, o-p. &it., XIV, 313. 66Castaiieda, Narrative, in Winship, o-p. &it., 444-445. 67Hackett, Pidtardo's Treatise, II, xiv.
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