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Show ' ; ‘y] b RNs ont 4 " ie ‘3 ; wt 1 x \ 934 4.¥ t pe h , i oi : oy Bs, , * : 4 se HISTORY MEXICAN OF NEW FRANCISCO ‘i +3 : x | rsé: FACTS LEADING ao. i mand, and with forty selected men started out in search of the When he reached Cicuyé the inhabitants of that captain-general. stronghold 4 a : 3 four about lasting engagement the days, during which time he threw some cannon balls into the pueblo, killing several men, among them two of their principal chiefs. After this affair ey fight, to out came learned it was that welcomed with great joy, and commands to Tiguex. Coronado and coming was together they returned was he with their re i }‘ Ms ae a 7 ’ 4 i fib ‘ j hej 17 68 Fi as | ‘ 4 1 ~ ye { aefF ea 4 ia ; j a 4 ' t Ps gst 3 4" | - ai i ag ii ; i pe Pe € lt saat “o8i 4 2 nel a. | The captain-general was given a great welcome when he arrived at Tiguex. The Indian, Xabe, who had been given to Coronado at Cicuyé, when he started off in search of QuiCORONADO ARRIVES vira, was with Don Tristan de Arellano when it was announced that Coronado was coming and AT TIGUEX was greatly pleased, saying to all, ‘‘now when the general comes, you will see that there is gold and silver in Quivira, although not so much as the Turk said.’? When Coronado arrived, and Xabe saw that they had found nothing, he was sad and silent and kept declaring that there was some. As Castaneda remarks, ‘‘he made many believe that it was so, because the general had not dared to enter into the country on account of its being thickly settled, and that he would lead the army there after this, and so it happened for it among for it broke during the race and he fell over on the side where Don slow and doubtful.’’ 25 It was said that a friend of the captain-general, in Spain, had prophesied that Coronado would some day become a powerf ul lord in a far-distant country, but would receive a fall which would cause the his death. During his illness, it is said that this prediction so influenced Coronado that he gave up all desire to go to Quivira, and only longed to return to his family, where he might die surrounded by his wife and children. During the time that Coronado was recovering from this accident, further back in the themselves — acochis.’’ dissension. The captain-general made every effort to induce the Indians to return to their villages, but was uniformly unsuccessful. Foraging parties were sent out. The army was in great need of clothing and, as Castafieda remarks, ‘‘necessity knows no law, and the captains, who collected the cloth divided it badly, taking the best for themselves and their friends and soldiers, and leaving the rest for the soldiers, and so there began to be some angry murmurings on account of this. Others also complained because they noticed that some favored ones were spared in the work that one feast day the general went out on Rodrigo was, and as his horse passed over him it hit his head with its hoof, which laid him at the point of death, and his recover y was The inactivities of camp life during the winter season gave much opportunity for gossip, discussion, and consequent dissatisfaction and 235 Rodrigo Maldonado. He was on a powerful horse, and his servants had put on a new girth, which must have been rotten at the time, country, because, although this was denied they knew what the thing was and had a name CORONADO horseback to amuse himself, as usual, riding with the Captai n Don rains were over.’’ This declaration of the Indian had much to do with the subsequent dissensions in the army. The men were not ready to believe, as Castafieda says, that ‘‘there was no gold there, but instead had suspicions that there was some VASQUEZ and in the watches and received better portions of what was divided, both of cloth and food.’’ In this manner the entire winter was passed, when an accident happened to the captai n-general which fixed his determination and gave him a good excuse for returning to Mexico. Coronado had already announced that he proposed returning to Quivira with the army, and the men began their prepar ations for the journey. As the historian of the expedition states, ‘‘since nothing in this life is at the disposition of men but all is under the ordination of God, it was His will that we should not accomp lish cia a es q | } / 4 Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, who had started to go to Mexico, came back in flight from Suya, bringing the news that the town was deserted and the people, horses, and cattle were all dead. This news was brought to Coronado only after he had so fully recovered as 251 Mota Padilla, cap. xxxiii, 6, p. 166: ‘‘asi el (gobernador) como los demas caiptanes del ejercito, debian estar tan ciegos de la pasion de la codicia de riquesas, que no trataban de radicarse poblando en aquel paraje que veian tan abastecido, ni de reducir 4 los indios 6 instruirlos en algo de la fé, que es la que debian propagar; solo trataron de negordar sus caballos para lo que se ofresiese pasado el invierno; y andando adiestrando el gobernador uno que tenia muy brioso se le fue la silla, y dando la boca en el suelo, quedo sin sentido, y aunque despues se recobro, el juicio le quedo diminuto, con lo cual trataron todos de desistir de la empresa. ’’ Gomara, cap. cexiv: ‘‘Cay6é en Tiguex del cauallo Franciseo Vasques, y con el golpe salié de sentido, y deuaneaua; lo qual unos tuniero por dolor, y otros por fingido, ca estauan mal con el, porque no pablaua.’’ |