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Show A CHAPTER IV Galicia, and the report made to the viceroy, Mendoza, by the friar, produced a tremendous sensation among the many cavaliers then sojourning and idling away their time at the ancient capital of Montezuma. The Seven Cities had been discovered. Justly proud of the great achievement of Friar Marcos, his friends in the priesthood and the members of his order took advantage of every opportunity to laud his single-handed efforts in behalf of the chureh and the crown.277 175 Bandelier, A. F. ‘‘The Spanish town of Mexico, founded in , Contributions, p- 172, and notes: one thousand people. ’ 1524, contained, fifteen years after its foundation, barely si Mota Padilla, Historia, cap. xxii, sec. 2, p. 3, Mexico, George Parker, Relacion de la Jornada de 1870. Cibola compuesta aneda de Nagera, E., p. 420: ‘‘He (Coronado) foun ood the friars who had Just arrived,14thand B.whoA. told such great things about what had discovered and what they had heard and other he ad riches that gs they had heard about the South Sea and City of M Without Stopping for anything, the Governor set Bs winds ae taking Friar Marcos with him, to tell the except his € things Seem Pan more important by not talking from the Indians, islands and other off at once for the Viceroy about it. them to anyone ave farticular friends, under promise of the greatestabout secrecy, until a began to 08 the City of Mexico and seen Don Antonio de Mendoza. Then 26 de Guzman ae that they had really found the Seven Cities which Nuio ad tried to find, and for the conquest of which he had collected FO New F, HE City of Mexico, in the year 1540, did not contain more These consisted of two than two thousand inhabitants.17> classes, sharply divided and almost antagonistic, the soldiers of fortune and the settlers, the former, says Mota Padilla, ‘‘floating about like corks upon water,’’ unemployed, restless spirits, longing for campaigns, conquest, and consequent adventure, fame and fortune.*76 The return of Friar Marcos, accompanied by the governor of OTQondg Francisco Vasquez CoroNapo—His MarcH AND Invasion, 1540— His Faiture AND RETURN To Mexico, 1542 S F pedo A |