The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska Page: 149 of 288
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THE JOURNEY OF CORONADO
South sea, from the part that sheds its waters
onto the plains. It flows across all the level
country and breaks through the mountains
of the North sea, and comes out where the
people with Don Fernando de Soto navigated
it. This is more than 300 leagues from
where it enters the sea. On account of this,
and also because it has large tributaries, it
is so mighty when it enters the sea that they
lost sight of the land before the water ceased
to be fresh.'
This country of Quivira was the last that
was seen, of which I am able to give any
description or information. Now it is proper
for me to return and speak of the army,
which I left in Tiguex, resting for the win-
ter, so that it would be able to proceed or re-
turn in search of these settlements of Quivira,
which was not accomplished after all, because
it was God's pleasure that these discoveries
should remain for other peoples and that we
who had been there should content ourselves
with saying that we were the first who dis-
covered it and obtained any information con-
cerning it, just as Hercules knew the site
where Julius Caesar was to found Seville or
Hispales. May the all-powerful Lord grant
that His will be done in everything. It is
certain that if this had not been His will
Francisco Vazquez would not have returned
to New Spain without cause or reason, as he
did, and that it would not have been left for
] This is probably a reminiscence of Cabeza de Va-
ca's narrative.
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Compilation of translated texts describing the explorations of Coronado and his companions as they traveled in Central American and parts of present-day United States, with some supplementary historical notes for context.
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Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952. The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth3161/m1/149/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .