484 THT CORONAUO EXPEDITION, 1540-1542 [eih.ann.14 



The army which had stayed with Don Tristan de Arellano started 

 to follow their general, all loaded with provisions, with lances on their 

 shoulders, and all on foot, so as to have the horses loaded. "VX'it li 

 no slight labor from day to day, they reached a province which 

 Cabeza de Vaca had named Hearts (Oorazones), because the people 

 here offered him many hearts of animals.' He founded a town here 

 and named it San Hierouimo de los Corazoues (Saint Jerome of the 

 Hearts). After it had been started, it was seen that it could not be 

 kept up here, and so it was afterward transferred to a valley which 

 had been called Senora. 2 The Spaniards call it Senora, and so it will 

 be known by this name. 



From here a force went down the river to the seacoast to find the 

 harbor and to find out about the ships. Don liodrigo Maldonado, who 

 was captain of those who went in search of the ships, did not find them, 

 but he brought back with him an Indian so large and tall that the best 

 man in the army reached only to his chest. It was said that other 

 Indians were even taller on that coast. After the rains ceased the army 

 went on to where the town of Senora was afterward located, because 

 there were provisions in that region, so that they were able to wait 

 there for orders from the general. 



About the middle of the month of October, 1 Captains Melchior Diaz 

 and Juan Gallego came from Cibola, Juan Gallego on his way to New 

 Spain and Melchior Diaz to stay in the new town of Hearts, in com- 

 mand of the men who remained there. He was to go along the coast 

 in search of the ships. 



Chapter 10, of how the army started from the town of Senora, leaving it 

 inhabited, and how it reached Cibola, and of what happened, to Captain 

 Melchior l>iaz on his expedition in search of the ships and how he discov- 

 ered the Tison (Firebrand) river. 



After Melchior Diaz and Juan Gallego had arrived in the town of 

 Senora, it was announced that the army was to depart for Cibola; that 

 Melchior Diaz was to remain in charge of that town with SO men; that 

 Juan Gallego was going to New Spain with messages for the viceroy, 

 and that Friar Marcos was going back with him, because he did not 

 think it was safe for him to stay in Cibola, seeing that his report had 



cieues. Aunqtie no esta mas de 37£ grades <1<' la Equinocial : que sino fuesse por laa montanas, seria 

 dil temple de Sevilla. Las famosaa siete ciudades de fray Marcos de Nira, que estan en espaeio de seys 

 leguas, ternan obra de 4. oho hombres. Las riquezas de su reyno es no tener que comer, Hi que vestir, 

 dorado la nieve sieie meses." 



1 1\ iedo, Ilistoria, vol, iii, lib, xxxv, cap. vi, p. 610 (ed. 1853), says of Cahe*a de Yaca and his com- 

 panions: "I'lns passadas las shims ques dicho, llegaron estos quatro chripstianos . . . a tres 

 pueblos mih' Isfahan juntos e pequenos, en que a via has! a veynte casas en ellos, las quales eran como 

 lis passadas 6 juntas, ... a este pueblo, 6 mejordiciendo pueblos juntos, nombraron los chrips- 

 tianos la Villa '/'■ los Ooragones, porque les dieron alii mas de soysrientos eoracones do venados escal- 

 ados <■ secos." < !abeza de Vaca describes this place in his Naufragios, p. 17j of Smith's translation. 



-It is possible that tin- persistent use of the form Sen era. Madame, for the place Sonora, may he due 

 to the copyists, although it is as likely that the Spanish settlers made the change in their common 

 parlance. 

 3 This should he September. See tin- next chapter; also the Itinerary. 



