474 THE CORONADO EXPEDITION, 1540-1542 [fera-AHU.H 



Ghapti r ;'. of how Francisco Vazquez Goronado came to be governor, kiuJ 

 the second account which Gabeza <l< Vaca gave. 



Eight years after Xufiode Guzman made this expedition, he was put 

 in prison by a juez de residencia, 1 named the licentiate Diego de la 

 Torre, who came from Spain with sufficient powers to do this.-' After 

 the death of the judge, who had also managed the government of that 

 country himself, the good Dou Antonio de Mendoza, viceroy of New 

 Spain, appointed as governor of that province Francisco Vazquez de 

 Coronado. a gentleman from Salamanca, who had married a lady in the 

 city of Mexico, the daughter of Alouso de Estrada, the treasurer and 

 at one time governor of Mexico, and the son, most people said, of His 

 Catholic Majesty Don Ferdinand, and many stated it as certain. As 

 1 was saying, at the time Francisco Vazquez was appointed governor, 

 he was traveling through New Spain as an official visitor, and in this 

 way he gained the friendship of many worthy men who afterward went 

 on his expedition with him. It happened that just at this time three 

 Spaniards, named Cabeza de Vaca, Dorantes, and Castillo Maldonado, 

 and a negro, who had been lost on the expedition which Pamfilo de 

 Narvaez led into Florida, reached Mexico. 3 They came out through 

 Culiacan, having crossed the country from sea to sea, as anyone who 

 wishes may find out for himself by an account which this same Cabeza 

 de Vaca wrote and dedicated to Prince Don Philip, who is now King 

 of Spain and our sovereign. 1 They gave the good Don Antonio de Men- 

 doza an account of some large and powerful villages, four and live stories 

 high, of which they had heard a great deal in the countries they had 

 crossed, and other things very different from what turned out to be 

 the truth. The noble viceroy communicated this to the new governor, 

 who gave up the visits he had in hand, on account of this, and hurried 

 his departure for his government, taking with him the negro who had 

 come [with Cabeza de Vaca] with the three friars of the order of Saint 

 Francis, one of whom was named Friar Marcos of Nice, a regular priest, 

 and another Friar Daniel, a lay brother, and the other Friar Antonio 

 de Santa Maria. When he reached the province of Culiacan he sent the 

 friars just mentioned and the negro, who was named Stephen, off in 

 search of that country, because Friar Marcos offered to go and see it, 

 because he had been in Peru at the time Don Pedro de Alvarado went 

 there overland. It seems that, after the friars 1 have mentioned and 

 the negro had started, the negro did not get on well with the friars, 

 because he took the women that were given him ami collected tur- 

 quoises, and got together a stock of everything. Besides, the Indians 

 in those places through which they went got along with the negro bet- 

 ter, because they had seen him before. This was the reason he was sent 



'A judge appointed to in\ estimate the accounts ami administration of a royal official. 

 \ lull account of the licentiate de la Torre anil his administration is given by Mota Fadilla led. 

 Icazhalceta, pp. 103-106). He was appointed jaei March IT. 1536, and died during 1538. 



3 They appeared in New Spain in April. 15;!6. before Corotiado'a appointment. Castafieda may bo 

 right in the rest of bis statement. 



4 Tbis account has been translated by liuekiughaiu Smith. See Bibliography lor the full title. 



