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Show COMMENTARY ON CORONADO. 515 the southwestern United States. Simpson's main errors were committed on the plains of Texas and thenceforward, in consequence of taking Jaramillo at his word regarding a certain " northeast" course, instead of which Jaramillo meant to say " southeast"; in not sending Coronado along the left bank of the Arkansaw river where it flows northeast to present Great Bend, Barton county, Kansas; and ( as I think) in putting Coronado finally too far north in Kansas- quite up to lat. 400, or the border of Nebraska. Yet Simpson's route will stand forever as the closest approximation ever made down to 1869; for what has since been done in the case amounts to little more than readjustment of Simpson in some particulars, and addition of many other details. After Simpson, Bandelier by all means. His story of Cibola may be conveniently read in the book called The Gilded Man, N. Y., 1893, pp. 111- 192. This is occupied with Coronado in Arizona and New Mexico, not going abroad with the explorer on the boundless plains of Texas; and in other writings, in which this painstaking, learned, and critical author deals with Coronado on the plains, he seems to me to have been less felicitous in his conclusions. It was not until May, 1897, when the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology for 1896 appeared, that the original sources of information regarding Coronado's march were brought together and set forth with anything like desirable completeness, as was done by George Parker Win-ship in the monograph entitled: " The Coronado Expedition, 1540- 42," occupying pp. 329- 613, with maps and other plates. This is altogether the most notable contribution ever made to Coronal history, dealing not only with the main expedition of the great explorer, but with collateral matters for twenty years, 1527- 1547. The body of Mr. Winship's article is occupied with the Spanish text and an English translation of Castaiieda- the former published for the first time, the latter original with Mr. Winship. For it is a curious fact that Castafieda's narrative, |