brickes, yet are they very excellent good houses of three or foure or fiue lofts high, wherein are good lodgings and faire chambers with lathers instead of staires, and certaine cellars vnder the ground very good and paued, which are made for winter, they are in maner like stooues:  and the lathers which they haue for their houses are all in a maner mooueable and portable, which are taken away and set downe when they please, and they are made of two pieces of wood with their steppes, as ours be.  The seuen cities are seuen small townes, all made with these kinde of houses that I speake of:  and they stand all within foure leagues together, and they are all called the kingdome of Cibola, and euery one of them haue their particular name:  and none of them is called Cibola, but altogether they are called Cibola.

And this towne which I call a citie, I haue named Granada, as well because it is somewhat like vnto it, as also in remembrance of your lordship.  In this towne where I nowe remaine, there may be some two hundred houses, all compassed with walles, and I thinke that with the rest of the houses which are not so walled, they may be together fiue hundred.  There is another towne neere this, which is one of the seuen, & it is somwhat bigger than this, and another of the same bignesse that this is of, and the other foure are somewhat lesse:  and I send them all painted vnto your lordship with the voyage.  And the parchment wherein the picture is, was found here with other parchments.  The people of this towne seeme vnto me of a reasonable stature, and wittie, yet they seeme not to bee such as they should bee, of that judgement and wit to builde these houses in such sort as they are.

For the most part they goe all naked, except their priuie partes which are couered; and they haue painted mantles like those which I send vnto your lordship.  They haue no cotton wooll growing, because the countrey is colde, yet they weare mantels thereof as your honour may see by the shewe thereof:  and true it is that there was found in their houses certaine yarne made of cotton wooll.  They weare their haire on their heads like those of Mexico, and they are well nurtured and condicioned:  And they haue Turqueses I thinke good quantitie, which with the rest of the goods which they had, except their corne, they had conueyed away before I came thither:  for I found no women there, nor no youth vnder flfteene yeeres olde, nor no olde folkes aboue sixtie, sauing two or three olde folkes, who stayed behinde to gouerne all the rest of the youth and men of warre.  There were found in a certaine paper two poynts of Emralds, and certaine small stones broken which are in colour somewhat like Granates very bad, and other stones of Christall, which I gaue one of my seruaunts to lay vp to send them to your lordship, and hee hath lost them as hee telleth me.  We found heere Guinie cockes, but fewe.  The Indians tell mee in all these seuen cities, that they eate them not, but that they keepe them onely for their feathers.  I beleeue them not, for they are excellent good, and greater then those of Mexico.  The season which is in this countrey, and the temperature of the ayre is like that of Mexico:  for sometime it is hotte, and sometime it raineth:  but hitherto I neuer sawe it raine, but once there fell a little showre with winde, as they are woont to fall in Spaine.