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: 195 of 288
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THE JOURNEY OF CORONADO
Thirty leagues before reaching the place
Which the father provincial spoke so well of
in his report,1 I sent Melchior Diaz forward
With fifteen horsemen, ordering him to make
but one day's journey out of two, so that
he could examine everything there before I
arrived. He traveled through some very
rough mountains for four days, and did not
ind anything to live on, nor people, nor in-
formation about anything, except that he
found two or three poor villages, with twenty
or thirty huts apiece. From the people
here he learned that there was nothing to be
found in the country beyond except the
mountains, which continued very rough, en-
tirely uninhabited by people. And, because
this was labor lost, I did not want to send
Your Lordship an account of it. The whole
tompany felt disturbed at this, that a thing
80 ltuch praised, and about which the father
had said so many things, should be found
8o very different; and they began to think
that all the rest would be of the same sort.
When I noticed this, I tried to encourage
theim as well as I could, telling them that
Yur Lordlship bad always thought that this
Part of the tril) would be a waste of effort,
and that we ought to devote our attention to
those Seven Cities and the other provinces
about which we had information-that these
should be the end of our enterprise. With
this resolution and purpose, we all marched
to e valley into which Friar Marcos did not dare
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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/m1/195/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .