winship] TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE EXPEDITION 597 



had taken note of the force as the men passed before him ; and at his 

 request he had also been allowed to see the list of names of those who 

 were enrolled in the army; and he declared that in all the said force he 

 did not recognize any other citizens of Mexico who were going except 

 Domingo Martin, a married man, whom he had sometimes seen living 

 in Mexico, and provided him with messengers; and one Alonso Sanchez, 

 who was going with his wife and a son, and who was formerly a shoe- 

 maker; and a young man, son of the bachiller Alonso Perez, who had 

 come only a few days before from Salamanca, and who had been sent to 

 the war by his father on account of his restlessness; and two or three 

 other workmen or tradespeople whom he had seen at work in Mexico, 

 although he did not know whether they were citizens there; and on his 

 oath he did not see in the whole army anyone else who was a citizen of 

 Mexico, although for about fourteen years he had been a citizen and 

 inhabitant of that city, unless it was the captain-general, Francisco 

 Vazquez de Coronado, and Lopez de Samaniego the army-master; and, 

 moreover, he declared that he felt certain that those above mentioned 

 were going of their own free will, like all the rest. 



Autonio Serrano de Gardona, one of the magistrates of Mexico, who 

 was present from beginning to end of the review of the preceding 

 Sunday, testified in similar form. He said that Alonso Sanchez had 

 formerly been a citizen of Mexico, but that for a long time his house 

 had been empty and he had traveled as a trader, and that he was going 

 in search of something to live ©n; and one Domingo Martin was also 

 going, who formerly lived in Mexico, and whose residence he had not 

 known likewise for a long time, nor did he think that he had one, 

 becau.se he had not seen him living in Mexico. He did not think it 

 would have been possible for any citizens of Mexico to have been there 

 whom he did not know, because he had lived in Mexico during the 

 twenty j 7 ears since he came to Mexico, and ever since the city was 

 established by Christians, and besides, he had been a magistrate for 

 fifteen years. And besides, all those whom he did see who were going, 

 were the most contented of any men he had ever seen in this country 

 starting off for conquests. After the force left the City of Mexico, he 

 had been there, and had noticed that it was full of people and that 

 there did not seem to be any scarcity on account of those who had 

 started on this expedition. 



Gonzalo de Salazar, His Majesty's factor for New Spain, and also a 

 magistrate of the City of Mexico, declared that the only person on the 

 expedition who possessed a repartimiento or estate in New Spain was 

 the captain-general, Vazquez de Coronado, and that he had noticed 

 one other citizen who did not have a repartimiento. He had not seen 

 any other citizen of Mexico, nor of New Spain, although one of the 

 greatest benefits that could have been done New Spain would have 

 been to draw off the young and vicious people who were in that city 

 and all over New Spain. 



