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large quantities. Horses are the most necessary things in the new 

 countries, and they frighten the enemy most. . . . Artillery is also 

 much feared by those who do not know how to use it. A piece of heavy 

 artillery would be very good for settlements like those which Francisco 

 Vazquez Corouado discovered, in order to knock them down, because 

 he had nothing but some small machines for slinging and nobody skill- 

 ful enough to make a catapult or some other machine which would 

 frighten them, which is very necessary. 



I say, then, that with what we now know about the trend of the 

 coast of the South sea, which has been followed by the ships which 

 explored the western part, and what is known of the North sea toward 

 Norway, the coast of which extends up from Florida, those who now 

 go to discover the country which Francisco Vazquez entered, and reach 

 the country of Cibola or of Tiguex, will know the direction in which 

 they ought to go in order to discover the true direction of the country 

 which the Marquis of the Valley, Don Hernando Cortes, tried to find, 

 following the direction of the gulf of the Firebrand (Tizou) river. This 

 will suffice for the conclusion of our narrative. Everything else rests 

 on the powerful Lord of all things, God Omnipotent, who knows how 

 and when these lands will be discovered and for whom He has guarded 

 this good fortune. 



Laus Deo. 



Finished copying, Saturday the 26th of October, 1596. in Seville. 



