VASQUEZ DE CORONADO a.d. 



1540. 

 lordshippe, then I have done in comming hither whither 

 you have sent mee, my selfe and my companions carry- 

 ing our victuals upon our shoulders and upon our 

 horses three hundred leagues ; and many dayes going 

 on foote travailing over hilles and rough mountaines, 

 with other troubles which I cease to mention, neither 

 purpose I to depart unto the death, if it please his 

 Majestie and your lordship that it shall be so. 



Three dayes after this citie was taken, certaine Indians [III. 379.] 

 of these people came to offer mee peace, and brought 

 mee certaine Turqueses and badde mantles, and I re- Turqueses, 

 ceived them in his Majesties name with all the good ^^^^^^^' 

 speaches that I could devise, certifying them of the 

 purpose of my comming into this countrey, which is in 

 the name of his Majestie, and by the commaundement 

 of your Lordship, that they and all the rest of the 

 people of this province should become Christians, and 

 should knowe the true God for their Lorde, and receive 

 his Majestie for their King, and earthly Soveraigne : And 

 herewithall they returned to their houses, and suddenly ^^^^ Indians ^ 

 the next day they set in order all their goods and sub- -^^f!\!^^ ^^^^ 



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Stance, their women and children, and ned to the nilles, zvives.children 

 leaving their townes as it were abandoned, wherein re- and goods. 

 mained very fewe of them. When I sawe this, within 

 eight or tenne dayes after being recovered of my woundes, 

 I went to the citie, which I sayde to bee greater then ^ citie greater 

 this where I am, and found there some fewe of them, ^^^^ Granada. 

 to whom I sayde that they should not bee afrayd, and 

 that they should call their governour unto mee : howbeit, 

 forasmuch as I can learne or gather, none of them hath 

 any governour : for I sawe not there any chiefe house, 

 whereby any preeminence of one over another might bee 

 gathered. After this an olde man came, which sayd that 

 hee was their lord, with a piece of a mantle made of 

 many pieces, with whom I reasoned that small while that 

 hee stayed with mee, and hee sayd that within three dayes 

 after, hee and the rest of the chiefe of that towne would 

 come and visite mee, and give order what course should 



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