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: 279 of 288
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TESTIMONY CONCERNING THOSE
WHO WENT ON THE EXPEDITION
WITH FRANCISCO VAZQUEZ CO-
RONADO1
AT Compostela, on February 21, 1540,
Coronado presented a petition to the viceroy
Mendoza, declaring that he had observed that
certain persons who were not well disposed
toward the expedition which was about to
start for the newly discovered country had
said that many of the inhabitants of the
City of Mexico and of the other cities and
towns of New Spain, and also of Compostela
and other places in this province of New
Galicia were going on the expedition at his
request or because of inducements offered by
him, as a result of which the City of Mexico
and New Spain were left deserted, or almost
so. Therefore, he asked the viceroy to order
that information be obtained, in order that
the truth might be known about the citizens
of New Spain and of this province who were
going to accompany him. He declared that
there were very few of these, and that they
were not going on account of any attraction
I Translated freely and abridged from the deposi-
tions as printed in Pacheco y Cardenas, Documentos
de Indias, vol. xiv, p. 373. See note on page 377.
The statements of the preceding witnesses are usu-
ally repeated, in effect, in the testimony of those
who follow.
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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/m1/279/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .