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Notes 
Notes for Part L, Section 3. 
1 An old Spanish coin of the value of about one-sixth of a cent. 
2 “López (Gongalo)—Attorney of Mexico, to whom the governor of Yucatán appor¬ 
tioned certain Indians in the pueblo of Acatlán, the third part of whom he had posses¬ 
sion of in the year 1548” ( Cartas de Indias, p. 787). See also ibid., p. 75. 
3 For other documents, written about 1563, which relate to the activities of the Ibar¬ 
ras in Nueva Galicia see Colección de Documentos Inéditos, relativos al Descubrimiento, 
Conquista, y Organización de las antiguas Posesiones Españolas de America y Oceania, 
XIV. 553-561. 
4 The reference is to the expedition of Fray Agustín Rodríguez and Francisco Sánchez 
Chamuscado to the Pueblo region in New Mexico in 1581. See p. 193. 
5 Francisco de Ibarra was the founder and first governor of Nueva Vizcaya, and 
served from 1562 until after 1570. He was a nephew of the writer of this letter. 
6 One Joan López de Ibarra was a member of the Espejo expedition to New Mexico 
in 1582-1583. “Account of the Journey which I, Antonio Espejo . . . made ... to 
the Provinces and Settlements of New Mexico . . [English translation], in Bolton, 
Spanish Exploration in the Southwest, pp. 170 and 185. 
7 Offices on the frontier frequently went to the highest bidder. 
8 Reference is to the province of Vizcaya in Spain. 
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