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Show 5 l 6 COMMENTARY ON CORONADO. the principal source of information on the whole subject, had never before appeared in Spanish, having been chiefly known in the faulty French translation printed by Henri Ternaux- Compans in 1838, in the ninth volume of his collection known as Voyages, etc., Paris, 1837- 41. The Spanish MS. used by both of these editors is a copy of the lost original, completed at Seville, Oct 26, 1596, and is now in the Lenox Library of New York. The title is: " Relacion de la Jornada de Cibola con-puesta por Pedro de Castaneda de Nagera. Donde se trata de todos aquellos poblados y ritos, y costumbres, la qual fue el Ano de 1540." The Lenox MS. is here printed verbatim, or as nearly so as it could be deciphered, and as just said is followed by Mr. Winship's very painstaking English translation. Cas-tafieda makes a mighty good story- teller, a bad historian, a worse geographer, and a jaundiced critic of the affair in which he took part; he also wrote from memory some twenty years after the event; but he is altogether the most circumstantial, if not the most reliable, authority we possess. How extensive is this contribution may be inferred from the fact that with its English translation it runs pp. 414- 546 of Mr. Winship's monograph. The Castaneda matter is preceded by the editor's historical introduction, which treats of the causes of the Coronado expedition, 1528- 39; the expedition itself; and various collateral subjects. The Castaneda relation is followed by various translations: the letter from Viceroy Mendoza to the King of Spain, Apr. 17, 1540; letter from Coronado to Mendoza, Aug. 3, 1540; the anonymous Traslado de las Nuevas, from Pacheco y Cardenas, Doc de Indias, xix, p. 529, originally of date 1540; both Spanish text and a translation of the Relacion Postrera de Sivola, apparently a transcript of letters written from Tiguex in 1541; the anonymous Relacion del Suceso; letter from Coronado to the king, Oct 20, 1541; the Narrative of Jaramillo; report of Hernando de Alvarado; certain other testimony, abridged from depositions as printed in Pacheco y Cardenas; and finally, an extensive annotated bibliography of the whole subject. The |