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: 270 of 288
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THE JOURNEY OF CORONADO
winter there for, and we were but very little
prepared for it, and the uncertainty as to
the success of the army that had been left,
and because the winter might close the roads
with snow and rivers which we could not
cross, and also in order to see what had hap-
pened to the rest of the force left behind, it
seemed to us all that his grace ought to go
back in search of them, and when he had
found out for certain how they were, to win-
ter there and return to that country at the
opening of spring, to conquer and cultivate it.
Since, as I said, this was the last point
which we reached, here the Turk saw that
he had lied to us, and one night he called
on all these people to attack us and kill us.
We learned of it, and put him under guard
and strangled him that night so that he
never waked up. With the plan mentioned,
we turned back it may have been two or
three days, where we provided ourselves
with picked fruit and dried corn for our re-
turn. The general raised a cross at this
place, at the foot of which he made some
letters with a chisel, which said that Fran-
cisco Vazquez de Coronado, general of that
army, had arrived here.
This country presents a very fine appear-
ance, than which I have not seen a better in
all our Spain nor Italy nor a part of France,
nor, indeed, in the other countries where I
have traveled in His Majesty's service, for
it is not a very rough country, but is made
up of hillocks and plains, and very fine ap-
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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/m1/270/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .