winship] TRANSLATION OP CASTANEDA 477 



Chapter 5, concerning the captains who went to Cibola. 



When the viceroy, Dou Antonio de Mendoza, saw what a noble com- 

 pany had come together, and the spirit and good will with which they 

 Lad all presented themselves, knowing the worth of these men, he 

 would have liked very well to make every one of them captain of an 

 army; but as the whole number was small he could not do as he would 

 have liked, and so he appointed the captains and officers, because it 

 seemed to him that if they were appointed by him, as he was so well 

 obeyed and beloved, nobody would find fault with his arrangements. 

 After everybody had heard who the general was, he made Don Pedro 

 de Tovar ensign general, a young geutlemau who was the sou of Don 

 Fernando de Tovar, the guardian and lord high steward of the Queen 

 Dona Juana, our demented mistress — may she be iu glory — and Lope 

 de Samauiego, the governor of the arsenal at Mexico, 1 a gentleman 

 fully ecpial to the charge, army-master. The captains were Dou Tris- 

 tan de Arellano; Don Pedro de Guevara, the sou of Don Juan de 

 Guevara and nephew of the Count of Onate ; Dou Garcia Lopez de Car- 

 denas; Don Rodrigo Maldonado, brother-in-law of the Duke of the 

 Infantado; Diego Lopez, alderman of Seville, and Diego Gutierres, for 

 the cavalry. All the other gentlemen were placed under the flag of the 

 general, as being distinguished persons, and some of them became 

 captains later, and their appointments were confirmed by order of the 

 viceroy and by the general, Francisco Vazquez. To name some of them 

 whom I happen to remember, there were Francisco de Barrionuevo, 

 a gentleman from Grauada; Juau de Saldivar, Francisco de Ovando, 

 Juan Gallego, and Melchior Diaz — a captain who had been mayor of 

 Culiacan, who, although he was not a gentleman, merited the position 

 he held. The other gentlemen, who were worthy substitutes, were Don 

 Alonso Manrique de Lara ; Don Lope de Urrea, a gentlemau from 

 Aragon; Gomez Suarez de Figueroa, Luis Ramirez de Vargas, Juan de 

 Sotomayor, Francisco Gorbalan, the commissioner Riberos, and other 

 gentlemen, men of high quality, whom I do not now recall. 2 The infantry 

 captain was Pablo de Melgosa of Burgos, and of the artillery, Her- 

 nando de Alvarado of the mountain district. As I say, since then I 

 have forgotten the names of many good fellows. It would be well if I 

 could name some of them, so that it might be clearly seen what cause 

 I had for saying that they had on this expedition the most brilliant 

 company ever collected in the Indies to go in search of new lands. 

 But they were unfortunate iu having a captain who left in New Spain 

 estates and a pretty wife, a noble and excellent lady, which were not 

 the least causes for what was to happeu. 



'See Mendoza s letter to the King, regarding Saraaniego'a position. 



'MotaPadilla, xxii, iii. p. 112, mentions among those who had commands on the expedition D. Diego 

 de Guevara and Diego Lopez de Cardenas. The second error may be due to the presence of another 

 Diego Lopez in the party. 



