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THE JOURNEY OF CORONADO
everything, for it is right that I should be
the authority for you and his lordship, to
assure you that everything is going well with
the general my lord, and without any hesita-
tion I can assure you that he is as well and
sound as the day he left the city. He is
located within the city, for when the Indians
saw that his grace was determined to enter
the city, then they abandoned it, since they
let them go with their lives. We found in
it what we needed more than gold and sil-
ver, and that was much corn and beans and
fowls, better than those of New Spain, and
salt, the best and whitest that I have seen
in all my life.
THIS IS THE LATEST ACCOUNT OF CIBOLA,
AND OF MORE THAN FOUR HUNDRED
LEAGUES BEYOND.1
IT is more than 300 leagues from Culia-
can to Cibola, uninhabited most of the way.
There are very few people there; the coun-
try is sterile; the roads are very bad. The
people go around entirely naked, except the
women, who wear white tanned deer skins
from the waist down, something like little
skirts, reaching to the feet. Their houses
From a manuscript in the possession of the fam-
ily of the late Sr. D. Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta, of
the City of Mexico. This appears to be a transcript
from letters written, probably at Tiguex, on the Rio
Grande, during the late summer or early fall of
1541.
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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/m1/224/: accessed March 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .