400 THE CORONADO EXPEDITION, 1540-1542 [eth.ann.U 



fairly begun, but the season, fortunately, was much less severe than the 

 preceding oue. 



Two parties formed in the Spanish camp at Tiguex during the win- 

 ter of 1541-42. The men who had seen Quivira can hardly have brought 

 back from there much hope of finding gold or other treasure by further 

 explorations in that country. But there were many who had not been 

 there, who were unwilling to give up the ideas which had been formed 

 during the preceding months. When the general parted from his army 

 on the plains, he may have promised that he would return and lead the 

 whole force to this land, if only it should prove to be such as their incli- 

 nation pictured it. Many persisted in the belief that a more thorough 

 exploration would discover some of the things about which they thought 

 the Turk had told them. On the other hand, there were many besides 

 the leader who were tired of this life of hardship, which had not even 

 afforded the attractions of adventure and serious conflict. Few of 

 them, doubtless, had wives and estates waiting to welcome them home, 

 like their fortunate general, but most of the gentlemen, surely, were 

 looking forward to the time when they could win wealth and glory, 

 with which to return to old Spain, and add new luster to their family 

 name. Castaiieda gives a soldier's gossip of the intriguing and per- 

 suading which resulted in the abandonment of the Pueblo country, and 

 Mota Padilla seems to support the main points in his story. 



THE FRIARS REMAIN IN THE COUNTRY 



When it was determined that the army should return to Mexico, the 

 friars who had accompanied the expedition ' resolved to remain in the 

 newly discovered regions and continue their labors among the people 

 there. Friar Juan de Padilla was the leader of the three missionaries. 

 Younger and more vigorous than his brethren, he had from the first 

 been the most active in constantly maintaining the oversight and disci- 

 pline of the church. He was with Tovar when the Tusayan country on 

 the west was discovered, and with Alvarado during the first visit to the 

 Rio Grande and the buffalo plains on the east. When Corouado and 

 his companion horsemen visited the plains of Kansas, Friar Juan de 

 Padilla went with him on foot. His brief experience in the Quivira 

 country led him to decide to go back to that district, when Corouado 

 was preparing to return to New Spain. If the Indians who guided 

 Coronado from Quivira to Cicuye remained in the pueblo country 

 during the winter, Padilla probably returned with them to their homes. 

 He was accompanied by Andres Docampo, a Portuguese, mounted on a 

 mare according to most accounts, besides five Indians, negroes or half- 

 bloods, two "donados" or lay brethren, Indians engaged in the church 

 service, who came from Michoacau and were named Lucas and Sebastian, 

 a mestizo or half-blood boy and two other servants from Mexico. 



1 Castaiieda implies that Friar Antonio Victoria, who broke his leg near Culiacan, accompanied the 

 main force on its march to Cibola. This is the last heard of him, and it is much more probable that 

 he remained in New Galicia. 



