 | LIEUT, A. W. WHPFLE - 1855 - 144 pages
...days' journey, to Cicuic," a small town, "and four leagues thence they met with a new kind of oxenj, wild and fierce, whereof, the first day, they killed fourscore, which sufficed the army with flesh." From Cicuic they went to Quivira, which, by their account, is almost 300 leagues distant, "through... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1861 - 856 pages
...the cicala, or buffalo, and is the first who speaks of that animal, which ho calls "a new kind of ox, wild and fierce, whereof, the first day, they killed fourscore, which sufficed the army with flesh." The great prairies and desert plains of New Mexico are so truthfully described by Castaneda, the historian... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - Mississippi River Valley - 1867 - 814 pages
...cilola, or buffalo. Coronado is the first who speaks of that animal, which he calls " a new kind of ox, wild and fierce, whereof the first day they killed fourscore, which sufficed the army with flesh." In 1581 other adventurers made known -the mineral wealth of the country, which caused it to be called... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - Frontier and pioneer life - 1868 - 822 pages
...cibola, or buffalo. Coronado is the first who speaks of that animal, which he calls "a new kind of ox, wild and fierce, whereof the first day they killed fourscore, which sufficed the army with flesh." In 1581 other adventurers made known the mineral wealth of the country, which caused it to be called... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1869 - 784 pages
...which yet remain ; and thence northeast several days' journey into the plains, where " they met with a new kind of oxen, wild and fierce, whereof the first...killed fourscore, which sufficed the army with flesh All that way and plains are as full of crookbacked oxen as the mountain Serena, in Spain, is of sheep."... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - Mississippi River Valley - 1870 - 806 pages
...cibola, or buffalo. Coronado is the first who speaks of that animal, which he calls " a new kind of ox, wild and fierce, whereof the first day they killed fourscore, which sufficed the army with flesh." In 1581 other adventurers made known the mineral wealth of the country, which caused it to be called... | |
 | 1875 - 846 pages
...the duolo, or bison, and is the first who speaks of that animal, which he calls " a new kind of ox, wild and fierce, whereof the first day they killed fourscore, which sufficed the army with flesh." The great prairies and desert plains of New Mexico are so truthfully described by Castañeda, the historian... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1875 - 854 pages
...the cibola or bison, and is the first who speaks of that animal, which he calls " a new kind of ox, wild and fierce, whereof the first day they killed fourscore, which sufficed the army with flesh." The great prairies and desert plains of New Mexico are so truthfully described by Castanoda, the historian... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - Geology - 1877 - 1046 pages
...with no buffaloes till he reached a place called Cicuic, situated on the Pecos near the site of tbe present town of that name,fl "four leagues eastward...Arizona," published in the American Naturalist in 1868,** state« that " there is abundant evidence that the buffalo (Bos americamis) formerly ranged over Arizona,... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1877 - 1066 pages
...east of Santa F6", met with no buffaloes till he reached a place called Cicuic, situated on the I'ecos near the site of the present town of that name,fl...fourscore, which sufficed the army with flesh." Dr. Elliott Cones, however, in his paper on the "Quadrupeds of Arizona," published in the American Naturalist in... | |
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Coronado is the first who speaks of that animal, which he calls " a new kind of ox, wild and fierce, whereof the first day they killed fourscore, which sufficed the army with flesh. 
