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they could, but while they were getting out the captain was mortally 

 wounded. Several Spaniards came back on some horses alter they 

 had recovered themselves and attacked the enemy, rescuing some, 

 though only a few. The enemy went off with the booty, leaving three 

 Spaniards killed, besides many of the servants and more than twenty 

 horses. 



The Spaniards who survived started off the same day on foot, not 

 having any horses. They went toward Culiacan, keeping away from 

 the roads, and did not find any food until they reached Corazones, 

 where the Indians, like the good friends they have always been, pro- 

 vided them with food. From here they continued to Culiacan, under- 

 going great hardships. Hernandarias de Saabedra, 1 the mayor, received 

 them and entertained them as well as he could until Juan Gallego 

 arrived with the reinforcements which he was conducting, on his way 

 to find the army. He was not a little troubled at finding that post 

 deserted, when he expected that the army would be in the rich country 

 which had been described by the Indian called Turk, because he looked 

 like one. 



Chapter 4, of how Friar Juan de Padilla and Friar Luis remained in 

 the country and the arm;/ prepared to return to Mexico. 



When the general, Francisco Vazquez, saw that everything was now 

 quiet, and that his schemes had gone as he wished, he ordered that 

 everything should be ready to start on the return to New Spain by the 

 beginning of the month of April, in the year 1543.'-' 



Seeing this, Friar Juan de Padilla, a regular brother of the lesser 

 order, 11 and another, Friar Luis, a lay brother, told the general that 

 they wanted to remain in that country — Friar Juan de Padilla in Qui- 

 vira, because his teachings seemed to promise fruit there, and Friar 

 Luis at Cicuye. On this account, as it was Lent at the time, the father 

 made this the subject of his sermon to the companies one Sunday, 

 establishing his proposition ou the authority of the Holy Scriptures. 

 He declared his zeal for the conversion of these peoples and his desire 

 to draw them to the faith, and stated that he had received permission 

 to do it, although this was not necessary. The general sent a company 

 to escort them as far as Cicuye, where Friar Luis stopped, while Friar 

 Juan went on back to Quivira with the guides who had conducted the 

 general, taking with him the Portuguese, as we related, and the half- 

 blood, and the Indians from New Spain. He was martyred a short 

 time alter he arrived there, as we related in the second part, chapter S. 

 Thus we may be sure that he died a martyr, because his zeal was holy 

 and earnest. 



Friar Luis remained at Cicuye. Nothing more has been heard about 

 him since, but before the army left Tiguex some men who went to take 



1 Compart' the spelling of this name on page 460 of the Spanish text.. 



2 The correct date is, of course, 1542. 



3 A Franciscan. He was a " frayle <le inisa." 



