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God's pleasure that these discoveries should remain for other peoples 

 and that we who had been there should content ourselves with saying 

 that we were the first who discovered it and obtained any information 

 concerning' it, just as Hercules knew the site where Julius Caesar was 

 to found Seville or Hispales. May the all-powerful Lord grant that 

 llis will be done in everything. It is certain that if this had not been 

 His will Francisco Vazquez would not have returned to New Spain with- 

 out cause or reason, as he did, and that it would not have been left for 

 those with Don Fernando de Soto to settle such a good country, as they 

 have done, and besides settling it to increase its extent, after obtaining, 

 as they did, information from our army. 1 



Third Part, which describes what happened to Francisco 

 Vazquez Ooronado during the winter, and how he gave 

 up the expedition and returned to new spain. 



Laus Deo. 



Chapter 1, of how Don Pedro de Tovar came from Sefiora with some 

 men, and Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas started back to New Spain. 



At the end of the first part of this book, we told how Francisco 

 Vazquez Coronado, when he got back from Quivira, gave orders to 

 winter at Tiguex, in order to return, when the winter was over, with his 

 whole army to discover all the settlements in those regions. Don Pedro 

 de Tovar, who had gone, as we related, to conduct- a force from the city 

 of Saint Jerome (San Hieronimo), arrived in the meantime with the men 

 whom lie had brought. He had not selected the rebels and seditious 

 men there, but the most experienced ones and the best soldiers — men 

 whom he could trust — wisely considering that he ought to liave good 

 men in order to go in search of his general in the country of the Indian 

 calledTurk. Although they found the army at Tiguex when they arrived 

 there, this did not please them much, because they had come with great 

 expectations, believing that they would find their general in the rich 

 country of the Indian called Turk. They consoled themselves with the 

 hope of going back there, and lived in anticipation of the pleasure of 

 undertaking this return expedition, which the army would soon make to 

 Quivira. Don Pedro de Tovar brought letters from New Spain, both 

 from the viceroy, Don Antonio de Mendoza, and from individuals. 

 Among these was one for Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, which 

 informed him of the death of his brother, the heir, and summoned 

 him to Spain to receive the inheritance. On this account he was 

 given permission, and left Tiguex with several other persons who 



'Mota Pad ilia. cap. xxxiii, 4, p. 166, gives his reasons for the failure of the expedition: "It was most 

 likely Che chastisement of God that riches were not found ou this expedition, because, when this 

 ought to have been the secondary object of the expedition, and the conversion of all those heathen 

 their first aim, they hartered with fate and struggled after the secondary ; and thus the misfortune is 

 not so much that all those labors were without fruit, but the worst is that such a number of souls 

 have remained in their blindness." 



