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Show COMMENTARY ON CORONADO. 517 work is thus a historical study of the greatest possible interest and value, of which the author has acquitted himself in a scholarly manner. Regarding the actual route of Coronado, the above- mentioned narrative of Jaramillo I think more important and less unsatisfactory than Castaneda's- I can follow it better myself, and am not without experience in such an undertaking. Jaramillo, like the other man, wrote from memory after the event; but he had a better eye for topography, or remembered the lay of the land better than Castaneda; and therefore I set him over all other chroniclers of the expedition as its prime itinerist. There are also points about the anonymous Relacion del Suceso of special importance to the recovery of Coronado's actual route; and this brings up the particular matter to which I wish to devote the remainder of this inadequate note. Winship says, p. 398, that " the two texts of the Relacion del Suceso differ on a vital point; but in spite of this fact I am inclined to accept the evidence of this anonymous document as the most reliable testimony concerning the direction of the army's march" ( where it was out on the plains of Texas and beyond). " According to this," Winship continues, " the Spaniards traveled due east across the plains for 100 leagues- 265 miles- and then 50 leagues either south or southeast." Now Jaramillo has it that the general bearing was northeast; and this has led even Bandelier astray, to say nothing of most other writers and far lesser authorities. Winship's acceptance of the easting and southeasting, rather than northeasting, adumbrates the most crucial point of the very notable contribution lately made to the whole subject by my colleague in the present work, Mr. F. W. Hodge. " Coronado's March to Quivira. An Historical Sketch," by Mr. Hodge, occupies pp. 29- 73 of my friend J. V. Brower's Memoirs of Explorations in the Basin of the Mississippi, vol. ii, Harahay, 4to, St. Paul, Minn., 1899. In my judgment this is the closest approximation ever made to the actual route, as |