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: 167 of 288
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THE JOURNEY OF CORONADO
them, and some captains even forgot the
obedience due to their general. Each one
played his own game, so that while the
general was marching toward the town, which
was still 10 leagues away, many of the men,
or most of them, left him in order to rest in
the valley, and some even proposed not to
follow him. The general understood that
he was not strong enough to compel them,
although his position as governor gave him
fresh authority. He determined to accom-
plish it by a better method, which was to
order all the captains to provide food and
meat from the stores of several villages that
were under his control as governor. He
pretended to be sick, keeping his bed, so
that those who had any business with him
could speak to him or he with them more
freely, without hindrance or observation, and
he kept sending for his particular friends in
order to ask them to be sure to speak to the
soldiers and encourage them to accompany
him back to New Spain, and to tell them
that he would request the viceroy, Don An-
tonio de Mendoza, to show them especial
favor, and that he would do so himself for
those who might wish to remain in his gov-
ernment. After this had been done, he
Started with his army at a very bad time,
When the rains were beginning, for it was
about Saint John's day, at which season it
rains continuously.
In the uninhabited country which they
Passed through as far as Compostela there
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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/m1/167/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .