The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 3, July 1899 - April, 1900 Page: 253
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Route of Cabeza de Vaca.
Maldona.do, and that they should be lodged in the quarters of the
Captain Flores, and Estebanioo in the house of Guzman. * * *
And Captain Chirinos told him what he had discovered, and in what
state he had left those provinces, and that there was no sign of gold
or silver.""43
Here the sifter must be brought in play, to, separate the chaff of
fiction from the real facts.
1. That ,Captain Chirinos left Peta-titlan in Sonora in 1532, after
ending his campaign, is historically true, and it is not improbable
that he returned by way of Culiacan, where Te Deum laudamus may
have been sung on his safe arrival; but it is impossible that Cabeza
de Vaca could then have been with him, for he was yet with his In-
dian masters.
2. It is historically true that Chirino.s did return to. Compostela,
while it was at Tepic and Guzman was there; but it is in contradic-
tion to all the known facts about the travels of -Cab eza de Vaca to say
he was there with Chirinos in 1532. And the history of that time
shows that Guz'man was there in Compostela on the sixteenth day of
December, 1532, and then and there made the Auto de Nuio de
Guzman Para las Elecciones de Guadalajara, signing it, Fecha ut
supra. Nuio de Guzman-Attested. 'Por mandado de S. S. An-
tonio de Teran.
Now, take another view of these statements, by changing the date
to April, 1536.
1. Chirinos made no such campaign in 1536, for in the early part
of that year he was in Jalisco and went to the celebrated meeting at
Compostela, called by Guzman to settle the question as to, making
slaves, and from there returned to his encomienda in Michoacan, hav-
ing retired from Guzman's service, as will appear further on.
2. Melchor Diaz could not then have been captain and alcalde
mayor at Culiacan; for, while he was appointed to. such position in
San Miguel prior to its removal to Culiacan and may have so offici-
ated there when Chirinos returned, yet on Easter, 1534, Diego Her-
nandez de Proafio was appointed to that place by Guzman, as shown
by the record.44 I-Ie held the office until some time in 1536, when,
"'Tell, Cap. rLXIII.
"Ibid., 'Cap. LXIX.253
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