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68 68 THROUGH VALENCIA CO., NEW MEXICO. Beservation — ^the authorities say near Ojo Caliente. .H; The TJnited States Goverament has expended a large sum of, inoney in translating from the Spanish everything that%ouidheipund.Ayritten at the time or Boon atterwardsj and CJastenada's account of the taking of the city of Cibola is most thrilling, so it is here quoted: ',' •*'It is a little una'ufcractiye village, (Cibola), looking as if it had been crumpled all up together. There are mansions in New Spain which make a better appearance iat a distance. It is a village of about 200 warriors, is three 'iand four stories high, with the houses small and having only a few rooms and vrith- out a court-yard. One yard serves for' each section. The people of the whole district have collected here, for there are seven villages in the province, and some others are even larger and stronger than Cibola. [These folks waited for the army, drawn up in front of ihe village. When liitey refused to have peace on the "terms the interpreters extended to them,* but ap- 'peared defiant, the Santiago, (battle-cry), was given and they were at once put to flight. The Spaniards then attacked the village which was taken with not a little difficulty since they held the narrow and crooked entrance. During the attack they knocked the general down with a large stone and would have killed him, but Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas and Hetrnando de Alverado, who threw themselves about him and drew him away, received the blows of the stones which were not few, but the first fury of the Spaniards could not be resisted and in less than an hour they entered the village and captured it. There