XABE (?-?). Xabe, probably a plains Indian, was reported by his captors, the Indians of Pecos Pueblo (Cicuyes), to be a native of Quivira^qv when they presented him to Francisco Vázquez de Coronado^qv as a guide in the spring of 1541. Xabe confirmed El Turco's^qv report of gold and silver in Quivira, although he stated that there was not as much as El Turco claimed.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Carlos E. Castañeda, Our Catholic Heritage in Texas (7 vols., Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1936-58; rpt., New York: Arno, 1976). Frederick Webb Hodge and Theodore H. Lewis, eds., Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543 (New York: Scribner, 1907; rpt., Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1984).

H. C. Taylor