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The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1.

leaving it inhabited, and how it reached Cibola, and of what happened to Captain Melchior Diaz on his expedition in search of the ships and how he discovered the Tison (Firebrand) river … 484

Chapters

1. Chapter 1, which treats of the way we first came to know

2. Chapter 2, of how Francisco Vazquez Coronado came to be

3. Chapter 7, of how the army reached Chiametla, and the killing

4. Chapter 8, of how the army entered the town of Culiacan and the

5. Chapter 9, of how the army started from Culiacan and the

6. Chapter 10, of how the army started from the town of Señora,

leaving it inhabited, and how it reached Cibola, and of what happened to Captain Melchior Diaz on his expedition in search of the ships and how he discovered the Tison (Firebran...

7. Chapter 11, of how Don Pedro de Tovar discovered Tusayan or

8. Chapter 12, of how people came from Cicuye to Cibola to see the

9. Chapter 13, of how the general went toward Tutahaco with a few

10. Chapter 14, of how the army went from Cibola to Tiguex and what

11. Chapter 17, of how messengers reached the army from the

12. Chapter 18, of how the general managed to leave the country in

13. Chapter 20, of how great stones fell in the camp, and how they

14. Chapter 22, of how the general returned from Quivira and of

15. Chapter 5, of Cicuye and the villages in its neighborhood, and

16. Chapter 6, which gives the number of villages which were seen

17. Chapter 8, of Quivira, of where it is and some information

18. Chapter 1, of how Don Pedro de Tovar came from Señora with some

19. Chapter 4, of how Friar Juan de Padilla and Friar Luis remained

20. Chapter 6, of how the general started from Culiacan to give

21. Chapter 8, which describes some remarkable things that were

22. Chapter 9, which treats of the direction which the army took,

The following historical introduction, with the accompanying translations, is the result of work in the Seminary of American History at Harvard University. Undertaken as a bit o...

23. did. When this narrative is ended, it will be seen that he did not

When the viceroy, Don Antonio de Mendoza, saw what a noble company had come together, and the spirit and good will with which they had all presented themselves, knowing the wort...

24. volume VI. The translation is from the 1555 edition.

This English translation was printed at Washington in 1851, and was reprinted at New York, with considerable additions and a short sketch of the translator, shortly after Mr Smi...

25. Volume I of Icazbalceta’s _Nueva Colección_. The 26 letters

which make up this volume throw much light on the early civil and economical as well as on the ecclesiastical history of New Spain. The second volume of the _Nueva Colección_, e...

26. volume I of Barcia, _Historiadores_.

The above entries are chiefly such as are of interest for their bearing on the troubles between Cortes and Mendoza, which were very closely connected with the history of the Cor...

27. Chapter XIV, “The Pueblo tribes in the sixteenth century,

— Historia general y natural de las Indias, por el Capitan Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés, primer cronista del Nuevo Mundo. Publícala la Real Academia de la Historia, con...