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186 186. , INDIANS DBINK HOT Blj6oi>. i ■^- The Tillages or cities heretofore named are eo' 'prominent and afford such unmistaJiable evidence of their existence that it bears out the assertions of Turke and Ysopete relative to the province of Quivira being thickly settled; in fact, all over this part of Kansas a great number of village sites have been located. No doubt Ysopete was quite sincere in Ms contention of the greatness of his own nation. • It was his home, and comparing the inhabitaoits of this territory with those occupying the plains between Ci- bola and here, they were comparatively (avilized, for the Querechds Indians, as well as the Teyas tribe, so ; often mentioned by Coronado and others, were met ' over a large expanse of country. They seemed to have no settled habitatiop, but followed herds of buf- falo, camping among the immense droves; no doubt, "their sole and only aim in life being to live, and their view of life was not as changeable as the kaleidoscope, "the acme of their epicurean appetites being a good. Jive rump steak from a freshly killed buffalo, washed down with nice hot blood, and as the old Spaniards told: their relish was to take an intestine between the ieeth and with their knife cut off a good mouthful, bolting same without mastication. It is authorita- tively stated that in Abyssinia the natives are ad- dicted to cutting a hve steak from the rump of their work oxen and sewing up the wound so it will heal, and who knows otherwise, for the purpose to furnish another fry! -These roamers of the plains of Texas, Indian Territory and part of Kansas were several degrees xerooved from the Kansas, Osage and Pawnee Indians.