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Show 160 LEADING FACTS OF NEW statement is made by Fray Geronimo in 1626. MEXICAN HISTORY Zarate-Salmeron, who wrote BIBLIOGRAPHY he, above all others, knew that an expedition would follow his return, organized for the exploration and conquest of the very country about which he was making report. Cortés, Coronado, and Castaiieda, however, in their statements about the friar can not escape the rightful suspicion of being insincere. Mr. Bandelier has made the first careful study into the facts and his judgment is of great weight Cortés wanted it to appear that the friar was untruthful; he was actively engaged in explorations along the Pacific coast, was supposed to have certain rights and privileges, and, naturally, was claiming everything in sight which might in an way add to the glory of his name or increase his personal fortune, and if an rb was personally interested it was the Marquis del Valle, himself The oo is available that Cortés did not hesitate to distort the truth and he si surel eneenrs when he said, ‘‘Y al tiempo que yo viene de la dicha tierra, el eric 7 eee — oorniae é yo le dj noticia de esta dicha tierra y desoxi , io de ella,’’ ete. oe ‘‘y despues que volvié el dicho fraile ha rn a 4 ; i ‘ mney. # nee de la dicha tierra; la cual yo neigo haber el scubierto,’’ SAINta ae ee ane Eee 4 fingiendo ete. y refieriendo i lo oe PRES eT ae , So far as Francisco Vasquez Coronado is concerned he was a very much disapSangin boner 7 was looking for some one upon whose shoulders = might sia er ae ity for the failure of the expedition which had been placed under aS yns soo pj y : way > ous was in position tv know ate rom Cibola. . just what Fr. Marcos had reported All that Castafieda knew he probably picked up a. wee and if his own veracity is to be questioned, there are certainly eo oe ~ that will not bear the light of strict investigation. As has been a aera ne a narrative may be somewhat colored, and this doubtless re om the fact that he wanted to believe what the natives told him » In his report, he carefully discriminates as to what the natives told him and be — There rs meehas ae rj : ever, that Cibola was the eae rns a — last desert before “agi some others at the Casas wilderness Coronado’s 1 a a <3 ee to a location of a portion, at - Marcos. may be taken as con iv : ORY of today. The difference of one ba iy to exist as to the point where he entered the Bancroft and vicinity of Hawaikih. seem to think ti a bpm Grandes of ¢] -” : 1€ friar entered the last desert near Chichilticalli, Gila, for at this place, Castafieda says, ‘“is where the begins, des 220of theeee from Culiacan.’’ Mr, Bandalict thinks that Chichiltie : Contributions, 4 “ea p. 150 ea ae eae foot of Mt. Graham. able route. Mr. Bandelic ie out what seems like the n oe entire conditi over this traveledpresent try for the imma pose personally of ascertaining physical which informati ] itions, mi ation was of greatat use us to hi im j naki the route which 4 Friar Marcos followed ee ee In or ob_ all of ee Alarcon, Hernando Bancroft, Hubert Howe Bandelier, Adolph F. Bartlett, John Russell Coronado, Francisco Vasquez Davis, W. W. H. Hakluyt, Richard Herrera, Antonio de Hodge, F. W. Mendieta, Q Fr. Geronimo Niza, Fr. Marcos de Prescott, William H. Winship, George Parker Whipple, A. W. la — Ramusio. Relacion du Voyage de Cibo Arizona and North American States; Mexico; New Mezico. Contributions, etc. Personas Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihuahua, New York, 1854, 2 volumes. hizo en el Relacion del Suceso de la Jornada que transDescubrimiento de Cibola; aio de 1531, lation by Buckingham Smith. The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico. The Principal Navigations, etc. Historia General, Stevens translation. Am. Anthro., The First Discovered City of Cibola, April, 1895. Historia Ecclesiastica Indiana; J oaquin Garcia Yeazbalceta, Mexico, 1870. de la Siete Ciudades, Relacion del Descubrimiento Doe. de Indias. Conquest of Mesxico. B. A. E., pp. 345The Coronado Expedition, 14th 546. Pac. R. R. Reports, Report of Explorations, etc., vols. iii and iv. |
