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xxii p., 1 ℓ., 230 p. : 1 ℓ. incl. 2 facsim. front. (fold. map) ; 19 cm.View a full description of this book.
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LETTER OF MENDOZA
Christ, and they with great diligence sought
to learne the same. After these dayes hee
sent them home againe, willing them not to
be afraid, but to be quiet, giving them ap-
parel, beades, knives, and other such like
things, which I had given him for such pur-
poses. The sayde Indians departed very
well pleased, and said, that whensoever hee
would send for them, they and many others
would come to doe whatsoever he would
command them. The entrance being thus
prepared, Frier Marco and his companion,
with the Negro and other slaves, and In-
dians which I had given him, went forward
on their voyage Io or 12 dayes after. And
because I had likewise advertisement of a
certaine Province called Topira situate in the
mountaines and had appointed the gov-
ernour Vazquez de Coronado, that he should
use meanes to learne the state thereof: he
supposing this to be a matter of great mo-
ment determined himselfe to goe and search
it, having agreed with the said Frier, that he
should returne by that part of the moun-
taine, to meete with him in a certaine valley
called Valle de los CoraCones, being I20
leagues distant from Culiacan. The Gov-
ernour travelling into this province (as I
have written in my former letters) found
great scarcity of victuals there, and the
mountaines so craggy, that he could finde no
way to passe forward, and was inforced to
returne home to Saint Michael: so that as
well in chusing of the entrance, as in not
being able to finde the way, it seemeth onto
all men that God would shut up the gate to
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Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century & Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914. The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions From Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth3001/m1/222/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .