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The stores of beans and corn found in the houses were a godsend to the famished Spanish soldiers and, for a time, the expedition rested and refreshed itself while their wounds healed and their horses fattened. Meanwhile exploring parties visited the other Zuni villages, but they must have been sorely dis- appointed with the results; for, instead of cities of gold and turquoise, they found only the terraced communal houses such as we know to-day with no treasure better than food and shelter. Ped...ro de Tovar with Fray Juan de Padilla, one of the out- standing figures among the early missionaries of New Mexico, went farther afield to the northwest and discovered the Moqui villages, that could so easily have been overlooked, so closely do they resemble the strange, erosive forms of nature that [70] THE HISTORIC BACKGROUND surround them. In due time he rejoined Coronado at Hawaikuh. In the meantime a young and handsome chief- tain had presented himself to the captain-general with a group of his followers Jemez Indians from Cicuye, the Pueblo of Pecos, far to the east and had offered friendship and alliance.
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