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



Iu the bibliography are the references to the exact location of the 

 Spanish texts from which I have translated the other narratives. I 

 am not aware that any of these have been translated entire, although 

 Mr Bandelier has quoted from them extensively in his Documentary 

 History of Zufii. 



There is one other account of the Coronado expedition which might 

 have been included in the present volume. Mota Padilla wrote his 

 Historia de la Nueva Galicia two centuries after the return of Coronado, 

 but he had access to large stores of contemporary documents concern- 

 ing the early history of New Spain, most of which have since been de- 

 stroyed. Among these documents were those belonging to Don Pedro 

 de Tovar, one of the captains in Coronado's army. Mota Padilla's 

 account of this expedition is nearly if not quite as valuable as that of 

 Castaneda, and supplements the latter in very many details. The 

 length of the narrative and the limitations inevitable to any work of 

 this nature forced me to abandon the idea of translating it for the 

 present memoir. Much of the text of Mota Padilla will be found, how- 

 ever, in the notes to the translation of Castaneda, while the second half 

 of the historical introduction is based primarily on Mota Padilla's nar- 

 rative, and a large portion of it is little more than a free rendering of 

 this admirable work. 



THE SPANISH TEXT 1 



Relacion de la Jornada de Cibola conpuesta por Pedro de Castaneda de Nacera. 

 Donde se trata de todos aquellos poblados y ritos, y costumbres, la qual fue el 

 Afio de 1540. 



Historia del Conde Fernando Gonzales impressa. 



PROEMIO. 



Cosa por sierto me parece inuy magnitico seiior liceta y que es exerci- 

 cio de hombres uirtuosos el desear saber y querer adquirir para sn 

 memoria la noticia berdadera de las cosas acasos acontecidos en partes 

 remotas de que se tiene poca noticia lo qual yo no culpo algunas per- 

 sonas especulatiuas que por uentura con buen celo por muchas ueces 

 me an sido inportunos no poco rogadome les dixese y aclarase algunas 

 dudas cpie tenian de cosas particulares q al bulgo auian oydo en cosas 

 y casos acontecidos en la Jornada de cibola o tierra nueba que el buen 

 uisorey que dios aya en su gloria don Antonio de Mendoca ordeuo y 

 hico liacer donde einbio por general capitan a fraucisco uasques de 

 coronado y a la berdad ellos tienen racon de querer saber la uerdad 

 porque como el bulgo ?nuy muchas ueces y cosas que an oydo y por 

 uentura a quien de. ellas no tubo noticia ansi las haceu mayores o 

 menores que ellas son y las que son algo las hacen nada y las no tales 

 las hacen ta admirables que parecen cosas no creederas podriatan bieu 



'This testis, as far as possible, a copy of the Relacion in the Lenox Library. No attempt has been 

 made to add marks of punctuation, to accent, or to alter what may have been slips of the copyist's pen. 



