VASQUEZ DE CORONADO a.d. 



1540. 

 rather let the people stay in their houses, because I came 

 onely in the name of his majestie to defend and ayd 

 them. 



And this done, Fernando Alvarado returned to adver- 

 tise mee, that certaine Indians were come unto them in 

 peaceable maner, and that two of them stayed for my 

 comming with the master of the fielde. Whereupon I 

 went unto them and gave them beades and certaine short 

 clokes, willing them to returne unto their citie, and bid [III. 376.] 

 them to stay quiet in their houses, and feare nothing. 

 And this done I sent the master of the field to search ^ whefore- 

 whether there were any bad passage which the Indians ^^^^* 

 might keepe against us, and that hee should take and 

 defend it untill the next day that I shoulde come thither. 

 So hee went, and found in the way a very bad passage, 

 where wee might have sustayned very great harme : 

 wherefore there hee seated himselfe with his company 

 that were with him : and that very night the Indians 

 came to take that passage to defend it, and finding it 

 taken, they assaulted our men there, and as they tell mee, T'he treason of 

 they assaulted them like valiant men ; although in the ^^^ ^^^^^ns. 

 ende they retired and fledde away ; for the master of 

 the fielde was watchfull, and was in order with his com- 

 pany : the Indians in token of retreate sounded on a 

 certaine small trumpet, and did no hurt among the 

 Spanyards. The very same night the master of the Great forecast 

 fielde certified mee hereof Whereupon the next day ^^^/^^%^^^ 

 in the best order that I could I departed in so great want master. 

 of victuall, that I thought that if wee should stay one day 

 longer without foode, wee should all perish for hunger, 

 especially the Indians, for among us all we had not two 

 bushels of corne : wherefore it behooved mee to pricke 

 forward without delay. The Indians here and their made 

 fires, and were answered againe afarre off as orderly as 

 wee for our lives could have done, to give their fellowes 

 understanding, how wee marched and where we arrived. ^ 



Assoone as I came within sight of this citie of Granada, ^^ ^£ ^^^^^ ^ 

 I sent Don Garcias Lopez Campe-master, frier Daniel, Cibola. 



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