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A Study of the Route of Cabeza De Vaca.
"not very fertile"; but all agree that the immediate Sonora valley
was rich and well stocked with food. In fact Melchior Diaz says
that it was the only region of any account from Culiacan to the
Gila river, when he went over it about three years after Cabeza
passed. Further on towards Culiacan, the Indians told Cabeza
that he had come from sunrise, and the enslaving Christians of
Guzman had come from sunset; but this was an error, since the
general line of meeting of these two parties was a north and south
one, the first coming from Corazones and the second from Culiacan.
I have massed this all that the reader may draw his own conclu-
sions. I have drawn my route down the Sonora valley, because the
early records show no other route as practicable in this region.
Mr. Bandelier has stated that a route running northward just east
of the very bed of the Sonora river was impossible in that day.1
7. From Corazones to the City of Mexico.
From Corazones, which, according to Oviedo, was on a plain,
he says they went directly to the Yaqui, where they waited fifteen
days, because the river was too high from rains for them to cross.
Cabeza says they waited on account of the flood (one day) at a
village half way to the Yaqui. Oviedo rightly says it was thirty
leagues to the stream. Cabeza says it was twelve leagues from the
second village. At any rate, here they found signs of what proved
to be Guzman's men, and in a hundred leagues more they overtook
them, after the flood subsided. After this they zigzagged among
mountains, and finally reached Culiac6n, to which they were taken
by the men of Alcaraz under a certain Cebreros, and where they
say they were received by Melchior Diaz as mayor. Here Cabeza
says they remained till after the fifteenth of May. In another
place he says that they were at this place (at least) fifteen days.
This would place the arrival there about the first of May, 1536.
Thence they went down the coast to Compostela, where they took
Guzman to task for allowing the Indians to be enslaved; and they
reached Mexico the day before the vespers of St. James, which date
Tello says was the 22d of July. Fere the viceroy, Mendoza, and
Cort6s, the marquis and conqueror, who was there then, received
'In favor of this are Dr. McGee's conclusions from his study of the
Pima Indians. This study he has not published yet, but the old routes of
travel and migration of these Indians he has kindly outlined to me.319
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