ne^ from the 

 sea. 



VASQUEZ DE CORONADO ad. 



1540. 



Chap. 2. 



They come to Chichilticale : after they had rested them- 

 selves two dayes there, they enter into a Countrey 

 very barren of victuals, and hard to travaile for thirtie 

 leagues, beyond which they found a Countrey very 

 pleasant, and a river called Rio del Lino, they fight 

 with the Indians being assaulted by them, and with 

 victorie vanquishing their citie, they relieved them- 

 selves of their pinching hunger. 



I Departed from the Caracones, and alwayes kept by 

 the Sea coast as neere as I could judge, and in very 

 deed I still found my selfe the farther off: in such sort 

 that when I arrived at Chichilticale I found my selfe Chkhiltlc.^ 

 tenne dayes journey from the Sea: and the father ^^'^ "^^^'^^-^f' 



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provinciall sayd that it was onely but live leagues dis- 

 tance, and that hee had scene the same. Wee all 

 conceived great griefe and were not a little confounded, 

 when we saw that wee found every thing contrary to the 

 information which he had given your Lordship. 



The Indians of Chichilticale say, that if at any time 

 they goe to the Sea for fish, and other things that they 

 carry, they goe traversing, and are tenne dayes journey 

 in going thither. And I am of opinion that the infor- 

 mation which the Indians give me should be true. The 

 sea returneth toward the West right over against the 

 Caracones the space of tenne or twelve leagues. Where 

 I found that your Lordships ships were scene, which 

 went to discover the haven of Chichilticale, which father T^hls Chkhll 

 Marcus of Ni^a sayd to bee in five and thirtie degrees. 

 God knoweth what griefe of mind I have sustained : 

 because I am in doubt that some mishappe is fallen unto 

 them : and if they follow the coast, as they sayde they 

 would, as long as their victuals last which they carry with 

 them, whereof I left them store in Culiacan, and if they 

 be not fallen into some misfortune, I hope well in God 

 that by this they have made some good discoverie, and 

 in this respect their long staying out may be pardoned. 



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