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Show 2 Stiller pu. Sa ce eR eee Ln a rail a ‘ cm FRANCISCO VASQUEZ CORONADO 185 so great that they were willing to leave the main portion of the army without a spiritual guide. Fortunately for those in the rear, after marching three days, one of the friars, Antonio Victorio, broke his leg and was sent back to Culiacan, which caused a little delay. The captain-general also endeavored to take with him a few sheep but these made the traveling so slow that he left them at the river Again putting themselves en route, they traveled through Yaquimi. the country without interruption, meeting with Indians who were invariably friendly, many of them having seen the friar Marcos on his previous journey, and all of whom expressed the greatest friendThey passed through the whole of the inship for the Spaniards. habited country and finally reached Chichilticalli. In arriving at this place, which had been described to them by Friar Marcos, Cor- onado followed the coast ‘‘bearing off to the left,’’ as Mota Padilla The physays, “‘by an extremely rough way’’ to the river Sinaloa. sical conditions encountered made it necessary to follow up the valley of this stream until he could find a passage across the mountains He traveled along this river for some distance and to the Yaquimi. then crossed to the Sonora.2°2 At Chichilticalli 2°° the party made camp for two days, in order to secure rest for the horses, which had begun to give out, as a result of over-loading, rough roads, and poor food. The captain-general was very much disheartened for 202 Winship, nado’s George Parker, Coronado Expedition, description note p. 386, says: ‘‘ Coro- of this portion of the route, in the letter of August 3, is abbreviated, he says, because it was accompanied by a map. As this is lost, I am following here, as I shall do throughout the introduction, Bandelier ’s identification of the route in his Historical Introduction, p. 10, and in his Final Report, part ii, pp. 407-409.’ Mr. Bandelier, of all the modern writers, is the only one who personally traveled over and made every effort to identify the route taken by Coronado. pn Winship, George Parker, ibid, note, p. 387, says that ‘‘This ‘red house in the Nahuatl tongue, has been identified with the Casa Grande ruins in Arizona ever since the revival of interest in Coronado’s journey, which followed the explorations in the southwestern portions of the United States during the Second quarter of the last century. Bandelier’s study of the descriptions given by those who saw the ‘Red House’ in 1539 and 1540, however, shows conclusively that the conditions at Casa Grande do not meet the requirements for Chichilticalli. Bandelier objects to Casa Grande because it is white, although he admits that it may once have been covered with the reddish paint of the Indians. This would suit Mota Padilla’s explanation that the place was named from a house there which was daubed over with colored earth — almagre, as the natives called it. This is the Indian name for red ochre. Bandelier thinks that Coronado reached the edge of the wilderness, the White Mountain Apache reservation in Arizona, by way of the San Pedro river and Arivaypa creek. TITAN |
