A.D. 



1540. 



Ships seene on 

 the sea coast 

 o/Quiz'ira, 

 which zvere 

 30. dayes in 

 say ling 

 thither. 



Andrew de 

 Campo tra- 

 vailed from 

 Quivira to 

 Panuco. 



The cause why 

 the Spaniards 

 peopled not in 

 Cibola. 

 [III. 382.] 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



plummes, mulberries, nuts, melons and grapes, which 

 ripen very well. There is no cotton : and they apparell 

 themselves with oxe-hides and deeres skinnes. They 

 sawe shippes on the sea coast, which bare Alcatrarzes or 

 Pellicanes of golde and silver in their prows, and were 

 laden with marchandises, and they thought them to bee 

 of Cathaya, and China, because they shewed our men 

 by signes that they had sayled thirtie dayes. 



Frier John de Padilla stayed behinde in Tigues, with 

 another of his companions called Frier Francis, and 

 returned to Quivira, with some dozen Indians of 

 Mechuacan, and with Andrew de Campo a Portugall, 

 the gardiner of Francis de Solis : Hee tooke with him 

 horses and mules with provision. Hee tooke sheepe 

 and hennes of Castile, and ornaments to say Masse 

 withall. The people of Quivira slewe the Friers, and 

 the Portugall escaped with certaine Indians of Mechua- 

 can. Who albeit at that time he escaped death, yet 

 could hee not free himselfe out of captivitie : for by 

 and by after they caught him againe. But ten moneths 

 after he was taken captive, hee fled away with a couple 

 of dogs. As hee travailed, hee blessed the people with 

 a crosse, whereunto they ofi^ered much, and whereso- 

 ever hee came, they gave him almes, lodging, and foode. 

 He came to the countrey of the Chichimechas, and 

 arrived at Panuco. When he came to Mexico, hee 

 ware his haire very long, and his beard tyed up in a 

 lace, and reported strange things of the lands, rivers 

 and mountaines that he had passed. 



It grieved Don Antonio de Mendo^a very much that 

 the army returned home : for hee had spent above three- 

 score thousand pesos of golde in the enterprise, and ought 

 a great part thereof still. Many sought to have dwelt 

 there ; but Francis Vasquez de Coronado, which was rich, 

 and lately married to a faire wife, would not consent, say- 

 ing, that they could not maintaine nor defend themselves 

 in so poore a countrey, and so farre from succour. They 

 travailed above nine hundred leagues in this countrey. 



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