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Show COMMENTARY ON CORONADO. 521 known. It is only by taking the text at the foot of the letter. Pro forma, that lat. 400, the Kansas- Nebraska boundary, can be assumed to have been reached; and such latitude is wholly uncertain. Most probably the journey ended with the discovery of the Republican Fork of the Kansas river, very likely not far from Junction City. One bit of Quiviran aftermath may be here recorded. Coro-nado was accompanied from Culiacan by four ecclesiastics, viz.: 1. Our friend Marcos de Niza, who went to Cibola and soon returned; died at Mexico, Mar. 25, 1558. 2. Fray Juan de la Cruz, who stayed at Tiguex and was killed there on or about Nov. 25, 1542. 3. Fray Luis de Escalona, an old lay brother, who went to Pecos ( Tshiquiti = Cicuye) and was killed there. 4. Fray Juan de Padilla. This priest went first from Zufii to Moqui ( Cibola to Tusayan) under Pedro de Tobar, and returned. Then he went from Tiguex to Quivira with Coronado, and returned. After that, in the fall of 1542, he again left Tiguex for Quivira, taking with him a Portuguese soldier named Andres Docampo, two young men of Michoacan amed Lucas and Sebastian, sur-named Los Donados, and some Mexican Indian boys. Fray Juan de Padilla started his mission at some place in Quivira, and was killed before the end of 1542. Docampo and the young fellows were kept as prisoners or slaves for nearly a year; after which they wandered about for some eight years, from Kansas to Tampico in Mexico. Thereupon Docampo disappears from history. Sebastian soon died in Culiacan; his brother Lucas lived to a ripe old age as a missionary in Zacatecas. |