ABSTRACT
The huts were square, and, being covered with straw, rather astonished them; for they had not seen, in the long dis tance they had left behind, any but such as were thatched with palms, nor had they seen the grassy plains whence the straw could have been procured, to thatch the huts. Those soldiers who wished to be satisfied on this point, dared not ask some Indians, who were too old to fly, where the lands were whence they got the straw, for fear the friends of Aguirre, observing them ask questions, should think they were inquiring about the rich lands they had originally set out in search of.1
