TRANSLATION OF THE TRASLADO DE LAS NUEVAS 



cory of the reports and descriptions that have been 

 received regarding the discovery of a city which is 

 called Cibola, situated in the new country. 



His grace left the larger part of bis army in the valley of Culiacau, 

 and with only 75 companions on horseback and 30 footmen, he set out 

 for here Thursday, April 22. The army which remained there was to 

 start about the end of the month of May, because they could not find 

 any sort of sustenance for the whole of the way that they had to go, 

 as far as this province of Cibola, which is 350 long leagues, and on 

 this account he did not dare to put the whole army on the road. As 

 for the men he took with him, he ordered them to make provision 

 for eighty days, which was carried on horses, each having one for him- 

 self and his followers. With very great danger of suffering hunger, 

 and not less labor, since they had to open the way, and every day dis- 

 covered waterways and rivers with bad crossings, they stood it after a 

 fashion, and on the whole journey as far as this province there was not a 

 peck of corn. 2 He reached this province on Wednesday, the 7th of July 

 last, with all the men whom he led from the valley very well, praise be 

 to Our Lord, except one Spaniard who died of hunger four days from 

 here aud some negroes and Indians who also died of hunger and thirst. 

 The Spaniard was one of those oil foot, and was named Espiuosa. In 

 this way his grace spent seventy-seven days on the road before reach- 

 ing here, during which God knows in what sort of a way we lived, and 

 whether we could have eaten much more than we ate the day that bis 

 grace reached this city of Granada, for so it has been named out of 

 regard for the viceroy, and because they say it resembles the Albaicin. 3 

 The force he led was not received the way it should have been, because 

 they all arrived very tired from the great labor of the journey. This, 

 and the loading and unloading like so many muleteers, and not eating 

 as much as they should have, left them more in need of resting several 

 days than of fighting, although there was not a man in the army who 

 would not have done his best in everything if the horses, who suffered 

 the same as their masters, could have helped them. 



The city was deserted by men over sixty years and under twenty, 

 aud by women and children. All who were there were the fighting 



'Translated from Pacheco y Cardenas, Docuiuentos de Indias, vol. xix, p. 529. This document is 

 anonymous, but it is evidently a copy of a letter from some trusted companion, written from Granada- 

 Hawikuh, about the time of Coronado's letter of August 3, 1540. In the title to the document as 

 printed, the date is given as 1531, but there can be no doubt that it is an account of Coronado's journey. 



2 The printed Spanish text reads : " que como veuian abriendo y descobriendo, cada dia, camino, los 

 arcabucos y rios, y malos pasos, se llevaban en parte.' 1 . . . 



3 A part of Granada, near the Alhambra. There is a curious similarity in the names Albaicin and 

 Hawikuh, the latter being the native name of Coronado's Granada. 

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