wikship] TRANSLATION OF CASTANEDA 529 



are of straw. There are other thickly settled provinces around it con- 

 taining large numbers of men. A friar named Juan de Padilla remained 

 in this province, together with a Spanish-Portuguese and a negro and 

 a half-blood and some Indians from the province of Capothan, 1 in New 

 Spain. They killed the friar because he wanted to go to the province 

 of the Guas,- who were their enemies. The Spaniard escaped by taking- 

 flight on a mare, and afterward reached New Spain, coming out by way 

 of Pauuco. The Indians from New Spain who accompanied the friar 

 were allowed by the murderers to bury him, and then they followed 

 the Spaniard and overtook him. This Spaniard was a Portuguese, 

 named Campo. 3 



The great river of the Holy Spirit (Espiritu Santo), 4 which Don Fer- 

 nando de Soto discovered in the country of Florida, flows through this 

 country. It passes through a province called Arache, according to the 

 reliable accounts which were obtained here. The sources were not 

 visited, because, according to what they said, it comes from a very 

 distant country iu the mountains of the South sea, from the part that 

 sheds its waters onto the plains. It flows across all the level country 

 and breaks through the mountains of the North sea, and comes out 

 where the people with Don Fernando de Soto navigated it. This is 

 more than 300 leagues from where it enters the sea. On account of 

 this, and also because it has large tributaries, it is so mighty when it 

 enters the sea that they lost sight of the laud before the water ceased 

 to be fresh. 5 



This country of Quivira was the last that was seen, of which I am able 

 to give any description or information. Now it is proper for me to return 

 and speak of the army, which I left in Tiguex, resting for the winter, so 

 that it would be able to proceed or return in search of these settle- 

 ments of Quivira, which was not accomplished after all, because it was 



"Ternaux, p. 194, read this Capetlan. 



: Ternaux, ibid., niiseopied it Guyas. 



; Herrera, Historia General, dec. vi, lib. ix, cap. xii, vol. iii, p. 207 (ed. 1730) : ll Toda esta Tierra [Qui- 

 vira] tiene niejor aparencia, que ninguna de las inejores de Europa, porque no es nini doblada, sino 

 de Lomas, Llanos, i Rios de bennosa vista, i buena para Ganados, pues la axperiencia lo mostraba. 

 Hallaronse Ciruelas de Castilla, entre coloradas, i verdes, de nuii gentil sabor; entre las Vacas so hallo 

 Lino, que produce la Tierra, mui perfecto, que coiuo el Ganado no lo come, se queda por alii con sus 

 cabecuelas, i flor azul; i en algunos Arroios, se hallaron Vbas de buen gusto, Moras, Nueces, l otras 

 Frutas ; las Casas, que estos Indios tenian eran de Paja, muchas de ellas redondas, que la Paja llegaba 

 basta el snelo, i encima Vila como Capilla, o Garita, de donde se asomaban." 



Gomara, cap. ccxiiii: "Esta Quiuira en quarenta grados, es tierra templada, de buenas aguas, de 

 muchas yeruas, ciruelas, moras, nuezes, melones, y vuas, que madman bien : no ay algodon, y visten 

 cueros de vacas, y venados. Vieron por la costa naos, que trayan arcatrazes de oro, y de plata en las 

 proas, co mercaderias, y pensaron ser del Catayo, y China, porq senalauan auer navegado treynta dias. 

 Fray loan de Padilla se quedo en Tiguex, con otro frayle Francisco, y torno a Quiuira, con basta doze 

 Indios de Mechuacan, y con Andres do Campo Portugues, hortelano de Francisco de Solis. Lleuo 

 caualgaduras. y azemilas con prouision. Leuo ouejas, y gallinas de Castilla, y ornanientos para dezir 

 missa. Los de Quiuira niataron a los frayles, y escapose el Portugues, con algunos Mechuacanes. El 

 qual. aun que se libro entonces de la muerte, no se libro de catiuerio, porque luego le prendieron : mas 

 de alii a diez meses, que fue esclauo, huyo con dos perros. Santiguaua por el camino con vna cruz, 

 aque le ofrecian mucho, y do quiera que llegaua, le dauan limosna, aluergue, y de comer. Vino a tierra 

 de Chichimecas, y aporto a Panuco." 



4 The Mississippi and Missouri rivers. 



fi'Tbis is probably a reminiscence of Cabeza de Vaca's narrative. 

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