A.D. 



1539- 



Valle de los 

 Corazones 

 mentioned by 

 Vazquez de 

 Coronado 

 cap. I. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



the same. After these dayes hee sent them home againe, 

 willing them not to be afraid, but to be quiet, giving 

 them apparel, beades, knives, and other such like things, 

 which I had given him for such purposes. The sayde 

 Indians departed very well pleased, and said, that when- 

 soever hee would send for them, they and many others 

 would come to doe whatsoever he would command them. 

 The entrance being thus prepared, Frier Marco and his 

 companion, with the Negro and other slaves, and Indians 

 which I had given him, went forward on their voyage 

 lo. or 12. dayes after. And because I had likewise 

 advertisement of a certaine Province called Topira situate in 

 the mountaines, and had appoynted the governour Vazquez 

 de Coronado, that he should use meanes to learne the 

 state thereof; he supposing this to be a matter of great 

 moment, determined himselfe to goe and search it, 

 having agreed with the sayd Frier, that he should 

 returne by that part of the mountaine, to meete with 

 him in a certaine valley called Valle de los Cora9ones, 

 beeing 120. leagues distant from Culiacan. The gover- 

 nour travelling into this province (as I have written 

 in my former letters) found great scarcity of victuals 

 there, and the mountaines so craggy, that he could 

 finde no way to passe forward, and was inforced to 

 returne home to Saint Michael : so that aswell in 

 chusing of the entrance, as in not being able to finde 

 the way, it seemeth unto all men, that God would 

 shut up the gate to all those, which by strength of 

 humane force have gone about to attempt this enter- 

 prise, and hath reveiled it to a poore and bare-footed 

 Frier. And so the Frier beganne to enter into the 

 Land, who because he found his entrance so well 

 prepared, was very well received; and because he wrote 

 the whole successe of his voyage, according to the 

 instruction which I had given him to undertake the 

 same, I wil not write any more at large, but send your 

 Majestic this copy of all such things as he observed 

 in the same. 



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