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81 INDIAN FEMALES PAINT. 81 even then they have to be men who are practiced to do it. Those who are not, had to trust themselves to others." "The women paint their chins and eyes like the Moorish women of Barbary. They drink wine made of the pitahaya, which is the fruit of a great thistle which opens like the pomegranate. The wine makes them stupid. They make a great quantity of pre- serves from the tuna; they preserve it in a large amount of its sap vrithout other honey. They make bread of the mesquite, like cheese, which keeps good for a whole year. There are native melons in this country so large that a person can carry only one of them. They cut these in. slices and dry them in the sun. They are good to eat and taste like figs and are better than dried meat; they are very good and sweet, keeping for a whole year when prepared in this way. "In this country there was also tame eagles which the chiefs esteemed to be something fine. No fowls of any sort were seen in any of these vlilages except in this valley of Suya, wL j re fowls like those of Cas- tile were found. Nobody could find out how they came to be so far inland, the people being aU. at war with one another. Between Suya and ChicilticaHi there are many sheep and mountain goats with very large bodies and horns. Some Spaniards declare that they have seen flocks of more than a hundred together, which ran so fast that they disappeared very quickly." "Cibola has seven cities. The largest is called Macaque. Tiie houses are ordinarily three or four stories high, but in Macque there are houses with