Juan de Oñate, 1595 
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Item: 100 head of black cattle. 
Item: 150 colts. 
Item: 150 mares. 
Item: two pairs of bellows with their equipment of irons. 
Item: four pairs of bellows in case there should be mines. 
Item: 2000 pesos worth of iron for horseshoes with their nails, 500 
pesos of it to be in extra nails. 
Item: 500 pesos worth of footgear [calcado]. 
Item: 500 pesos worth of medicines. 
Item: 600 pesos of iron tools, such as plowshares, crow-bars, picks, 
wedges, hoes, hammers, suelas, axes, augers, chisels, saws, and sickles. 
Item: 600 pesos worth of iron for making into tools. 
Item: 500 pesos worth of things for trading and making gifts to the 
Indians. 
Item: 200 pesos worth of paper. 
Item: 500 pesos worth of frieze and sackcloth. 
Item: Twenty carts provided with oxen and everything necessary. 
All of these things I offer to take in addition to the stores and food for 
the said soldiers which will be required until they reach the settlements; 
they are not to be used along the road except in the most extreme necessity. 
If it should be advisable to change some articles for others more necessary, 
in case it comes to the same amount of money, it can be done, and this 
note suffices for it. 
Item: I offer to take as my personal equipment the following things: 
Twenty-five horses. 
Twenty-five mules with their equipment. 
Two coaches with their mules. 
Two iron-tired [herrados] carts with their mules. 
Six light cavalry saddles. 
Six troopers’ saddles. 
Six leather shields. 
Six lances. 
Twelve halberds. 
Six coats of mail. 
Six cuishes. 
Six helmets with beavers. 
Six sets of horse armor. 
Six harquebuses. 
Six swords and daggers. 
Two complete corselets. 
Two stands of arms. 
Six buckskin jackets. 
