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received permission to go and settle their affairs. Tliere were many 

 others who would have liked to go, but did not, in order not to appear 

 faint-hearted. During this time the general endeavored to pacify sev- 

 eral villages in the neighborhood which were not well disposed, and to 

 make peace with the people at Tiguex. He tried also to procure some of 

 the cloth of the country, because the soldiers were almost naked and 

 poorly clothed, full of lice, which they were unable to get rid of or avoid. 

 The general, Francisco Vazquez Ooronado, had been beloved and 

 obeyed by his captains and soldiers as heartily as any of those who 

 have ever started out in the Indies. Necessity knows no law, and the 

 captains who collected the cloth divided it badly, taking the best for 

 themselves and their friends ami soldiers, and leaving the rest for the 

 soldiers, and so there began to be some angry murmuring on account 

 of this. Others also complained because they noticed that some 

 favored ones were spared in the work and in the watches and received 

 better portions of what was divided, both of cloth and food. On this 

 account it is thought that they began to say that there was nothing 

 in the country of Quivira which was worth returning for, which was 

 no slight cause of what afterward happened, as will be seen. 



Chapter 2, of the general's fall, ami of how the return to New Spain was 

 ordered. 



After the winter was over, the return to Quivira was announced, and 

 the men began to prepare the things needed. Since nothing in this life 

 is at the disposition of men, but all is under the ordination of Almighty 

 God, it was His will that we should not accomplish this, and so it hap- 

 pened that one feast day the general went out on horseback to amuse 

 himself, as usual, 1 riding with the captain Don Eodrigo Maldonado. 

 He was on a powerful horse, and his servants had put on a new girth, 

 which must have been rotten at the time, for it broke during the race 

 and he fell over on the side where Don Rodrigo was, and as his horse 

 passed over him it hit his head with its hoof, which laid him at the 

 point of death, aud his recovery was slow and doubtful. 2 



During this time, while he was in his bed, 1 Don Garcia Lopez de Car- 

 denas, who had started to go to New Spain, came back in flight from 

 Suya, because he had found that town deserted and the people and horses 

 and cattle all dead. When he reached Tiguex and learned the sad news 



'Or perhaps as Ternaux, p. 202, rendered it, "courir la bague." 



! Mota Padilla, cap. xxxin, 6. p. 166 : "asi el [gobernador] como los demaa capitanes del ejeroito, debian 

 eatar tan ciegos de la pasion de la codicia de riquezas, que no trataban de radiearse poblando en aquel 

 paraje que veiau tan abastecido, ni de reducir A loa indios 6 instruirlos en algo de la fe, que es la que 

 debian propagar : solo trataron de engordar bus caballos jjara lo que se ofreciese pasado el invierno ; y 

 audando adiestrando el gobernador uno quo tenia may brioso, se le i'ue la silla, y dando la boca en el 

 suelo, quedo sin sentido, y aunque despues se recobro, el juicio le quedd diminuto, con lo cual trataron 

 todos de desistir de la empresa." Gomara, cap. ccxiiii: "Cayo en TiguexMel cauallo Francisco Vaz- 

 quez, y eon el golpe salio de sentido, y deuaneaua: loqual vnos tuuiero por dolor, y otros pur fiugido, ca 

 estauan mal con el, porque no poblaua." 



3 Or, During tbe time that be was confined to bis bed, .... 



