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bim a number of sheep that were left for him to keep, met him as he 

 was on his way to visit some other villages, which were 15 or 20 leagues 

 from Oicuye, accompanied by some followers, lie felt very hopeful 

 that he was liked at the village and that his teaching would bear 

 fruit, although he complained that the old men were falling away from 

 him. I, for my part, believe that they finally killed him. He was a 

 man of good and holy life, and may Our Lord protect him and grant 

 that he may convert many of those peoples, and end his days in guid- 

 ing them in the faith. We do not need to believe otherwise, for the 

 people in those parts are pious and not at all cruel. They are friends* 

 or rather, enemies of cruelty, and they remained faithful and loyal 

 friends.' 



■Genera] W. W II. Davis, in his Spanish Conquest of New Mexico, p. 231, gives the following 

 extract, translated from an old Spanish MS. at Santa F6: Winn Coronado returned to Mexico, 

 he left behind him among the Indians of Cibola, the father fray Francisco Juan de Padilla, the 

 father fray Juan de la Cruz, and a Portuguese named Andres del Catnpo. Soon after the Spaniards 

 departed, Padilla and the Portuguese set off in search of the country of the Grand Quivira, where the 

 former understood there were innumerable souls to In- saved. After traveling several days, they 

 reached a large sel tleruent in the Quivira country. The Indiana came out to receive them in battle 

 array, when the friar, knowing their intentions, told the Portuguese and his attendants to take to 

 flight, \\ bib- he would await their coming, in order that they might vent their fury on bim as I hey 

 ran. The former took to flight, and, placing themselves on a height within view, saw what happened 

 to the friar. Padilla awaited their coming upon his knees, and when they arrived where he was they 

 immediately put bim to death. The same happened to Juan de la Cruz, who was left behind at 

 Cibola, which people killed him. The Portuguese and bis attendants made their escape, and ulti- 

 mately arrived safely in Mexico, where In- told w hat had occurred." In reply to a request for further 

 information regarding this manuscript, (leneral Davis stated that when lie revisited Santa Fe, a 

 few years ago, be learned that one of bis successors in the post of governor of the territory, having 

 despaired of disposing of tie- immense mass of old documents and records deposited in his office, by 

 the slow process of using them to kindle tires, hail sold the entire lot- — an invaluable collection of 

 material bearing on the history of the southwest and its early European and native inhabitant*— 

 as junk. 



Mota Padilla, cap. xxxiii, 7, p. 167, gives an extended account of the friars: " Pero porque el padre Fr. 

 Juan de Padilla cuando acorupaho ;i D. Francisco Vazquez Coronado haetael pueblo de Quivira, puso 

 en 61 una cruz, protestando no desampararla aunque le costase la vida, por tener entendido hacer 

 fruto en aquellos indios y en los comarcanos, determine volverse, y no bastaron las rnstancias del 

 gobernndor y demas capitanes para que desistiese p'>r entdncea del pensamiento, El padre Fr. Luisde 

 I'beda rogd tambien le dejasen volver con el padre Fr. Juan de Padilla hasta el pueblo de Coquite, en 

 donde le pareeia podrian servir de domesticar algo A aquellos indios por parecerle se halhtb.m eon 

 alguua disposition; y quepuesel era viejo, emplearia la corta vida quo le quedase en procurar la 

 Balvacion de las almas de aquellos miserables. A su imitacion tambien el padre Fr. Juan de biCruz, 



religioso lego (como hi era Fr. Luis de I'beda) pretendid quedarse en aquellas provinciaa de Tigiies, y 

 porquese disenrrio que con el tiempo se eonseguiria la poblacion de aquellas tierras, condeseendid el 

 gobernador ;i los deseos de aijuellos apostdlicos varones, y les dejaronproveidos de loque por entdnees 

 parecid aecesario; y tambien quiso quedarse un Boldado, de nacion portugues, Ham ado Andres del 

 Campo, con animo de servir al padre Padilla, y tambien dos indizuelos donados nombrados Lucas y 

 Sebastian, naturales de Michoacan; y otros dos indizuelos que end ejercito hacian oticios de sacri- 

 stanes,yotro muchacho mestizo: dejAronle ;i dicho padre Padilla ornamentosy provision para que 

 celebrase el santo sacrificio de la misa. y algunos bienecillos que imdiese dar & los indios para 

 atraerlos A su voluutad. 



"8. . . . Quedaron estos benditos religiosos como corderos entre lobos; y vi6ndose solos, tratdel 

 padre Fr. Juan de Padilla. con losde Tigiies, el finquelemoviail quedarse entre ellos, quenoeraotroque 

 el detratardelasalvacion de sua almas ; queya lossoldadossehabian ido, que no les serian molest os, que 

 el pasaba & otras poblaciones y les dejaba al padre Fr. Juan de la Cruz para que les fuese instruyendoen 

 loque debian saber paraser cristianos e hijos de la Santa Iglesia, como neeesariopara salvar sus almas, 

 que les tratasen bien, y que el procurana volver ft consolarles: despidese con gran ternura, dejando, 

 como prelado, lleuo de uendiciones. a Fr. Juan de la Cruz, y los indios de Tigiies sefialaron una 

 escuadra de sus soldados que guiascn a dichos padres Fr. Juan de Padilla y Fr. Luis de Ubeda hastael 

 pueblo de Coquite, en donde les recibieron con demostraciones de alegria, y haciendo la mismareco- 

 mendacion por el padre Fr. Luis de Ubeda, le dejd, y guiado de otros naturales del mismo pueblo, salid 



