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: 181 of 288
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TIIE JOURNEY OF CORONADO
is the best. There ought to be river courses,
because the necessary supplies can be carried
on these more easily in large quantities.
Horses are the most necessary things in the
new countries, and they frighten the enemy
most. . . . Artillery is also much feared by
those who do not know how to use it. A
piece of heavy artillery would be very good
for settlements like those which Francisco
Vazquez Coronado discovered, in order to
knock them down, because he had nothing
but some small machines for slinging and
nobody skillful enough to make a catapult or
some other machine which would frighten
them, which is very necessary.
I say, then, that with what we now know
about the trend of the coast of the South sea,
which has been followed by the ships which
explored the western part, and what is known
of the North sea toward Norway, the coast
of which extends up from Florida, those
who now go to discover the country which
Fraecisco Vazquez entered, and reach the
country of Cibola or of Tiguex, will know
the direction in which they ought to go in
order to discover the true direction of the
country which the Marquis of the Valley,
Don Hernando Cortes, tried to find, follow-
ing the direction of the gulf of the Firebrand
(Tizon) river. This will suffice for the con-
clusion of our narrative. Everything else
rests on the powerful Lord of all things,
God Omnipotent, who knows how and
when these lands will be discovered and
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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/m1/181/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .