Introductory Note 
v 
A fresh transcription of the texts was made necessary by the determi¬ 
nation to expand abbreviations, which the copyist had conscientiously 
reproduced from the original, but the permanent retention of which would 
have made the texts unreadable; to separate words which in the original 
had been run together; and to modernize the use of u and v and of i and j. 
The details of the editorial work carried out by Dr. Hackett, or under his 
general supervision, are described by him in the ensuing preface. 
The results of Dr. Hackett’s labors are presented to the reading world 
with gratitude to him, to Dr. and Mrs. Bandelier, to Señor Don Pedro 
Torres Lanzas, director of the Archives of the Indies, and to those named 
above from whose collections supplementary materials have been derived, 
and with confidence that they will be thought to have furnished a signal 
addition to the materials for understanding the early history of the 
Southwest. 
The work is expected to consist of four volumes. The index to the 
present volume has been prepared by Mr. David M. Matteson. 
J. Franklin Jameson. 
