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Show 174 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN wanderings. He mentions a number of illustrious names, among them, whom he remembered, being ‘‘Francisco de Barrionuevo, a gentleman from Granada; Juan de Salvidar, Francisco de Ovando Juan Gallego, and Melchior Diaz, a captain who had been mayor of Culiacan, who, although he was not a gentleman, merited the position he held. The other gentlemen who were worthy substitutes, were Don Alonzo Manrique de Lara, Don Lope de Urrea, a gentleman from Aragon, Gomez Suarez de Figueroa, Luis Ramirez de Vargas, Juan de Sotomayor, Francisco Gorbalan, the commissioner Riberos, and other gentlemen, of high quality, whom I do not now recall. As I say, since then I have forgotten the names of many good fellows. It would be well if I could name some of them, so that it might be clearly seen what cause I had for saying that they had on this expedition the most brilliant company ever collected in the Indies to go in search of new lands. But they were unfortunate in having a captain who left in New Spain estates and a pretty wife, a noble and excellent lady, which were not the least causes for what was to happen.’’ The equipment of the army was & the same character as was usual where expeditions were made up largely of volunteers.1% Arms and military supplies had been among the things greatly needed in New Spain when Mendoza reported its condition in his first letters to the home gover nment. It was a most dazzling and splendid array as the army passed in review country, Castafieda remained at Culiacan, where h Jornada de Cibola. dred and forty-seven was preserved in the before Mendoza : and The work left by him isis inin manus mene | eacion cript eee coverin g one dehun-Ia pages, written on paper collection of D’Uguina, in sie of the ete cih It Paris, and was translated and > Srst time by H. Ternaux-Compans copy is ee in the Lenox . in 1838. This Library, New York. It is not the original but ae R * 2 6. Although diligent ‘a copy inquir y has been made of the custodians - ae Be eve oe of at a ae Madrid, and at Seville oe nothing has as 0 Yo € origina ee l. T he best translation ion inj Englis lish h isi that of naux version or translation pent freedom and in some was made with i respects is far from accur ate. Castafieda, Relacion, ete.: ‘(Ag each one wa own baggage and all did n o t k Started off fat and plump, De he, ecome man, ’’ carriers, a ’ see many gentlemen aS not considered a 175 CORONADO VASQUEZ FRANCISCO HISTORY Spain on this the officials who helped and watched him govern New ry, 1540. ne curbed the picked horses from the large ee pe aa ee farms of the viceroy, each resplendent in long blankets ee Apes his while erect, lance his Hach rider held the ground. fee a his at places proper their in hung other weapons 0 : fis on arrayed in coats of mail polished to shine like that a ; to : was s, trapping brilliant its whose gilded armor, with na aa na ey pani months few a blows many hard 0 e izored head-pieces of the tough bull-ni oe eae niga re The foot-men de iba se | : W s, while some of them were armed er ae Se their carrying on at these white men, Lane paint a pied their 1n allies, native of crowd the warfare, was the Indian ae a oe attire, armed with the bow and club of all started hee ordere In duly off the next morning, . a say d pete | eee with their banners flying, upward of a thousan the - cee hes leading them, with lowers, black and red men, went Pia cee extra the bearing animals, driving the pack oxen, cows, an of droves large the herding or ters, ce he ~ armsd assure fresh ste had been collected by the viceroy to thousan a There were more than on its march.1®2 : isions, noes i rr camp i train, besides the mules, loaded with p artillery, and Pee half a dozen pieces of light swivel guns of the period." of volunteers, capar- : : Awe-inspiring was the spectacle Rae ‘its northward isoned in all the panoply of war, as . stn Febru march from Compostella on Monday,’** —_—_—— = ee Oe Thi Hei ee Not ; 8...ii, 9, ker, Coronado Expedition, tion, pp.PP BIS-Ols © Mexico, 72. a ee Documentos para La priest nae si saben ete. ives all the details of the expedition. C liacan que es el postrer . oe Peer ae Gaks 0) : 93, 1540. . s i ee galio de la villa de S. Miguel de die ubrimiento de la tierra de la Nueva Espafia, para 07 ©” “Vasquez ales sus Coronado, asi parafueron 1 capitan general Francis oe espafioles ; Beraona4, .Gomg Pat AR CALI or m de @ caballo, a? los cu ‘Ci municiones y 0 tras bastimientos, Y ‘las Mites mas de mil caballos y acemilas, i a vieron y hallaron presentes, y fueron i. _ es lo diran los es testigos, porqu the of viaje. ’’ the exact da te sitivi ely i Tt is a very difficult ma do not agree, oa . ae several piers mbled on the oe departure of the army from Compostel asse y asi dicho 194 Castafieda does not give a date other tha n the force was |