Political Science_, extra volume, X.
— Spanish colonization in the southwest.
_Johns Hopkins University Studies_, VIII, April, 1890, pp.
121–193.
— The conquest of New Spain.
_Agora_, Lawrence, Kans., beginning Jan., 1896. This series
of papers is not yet completed.
Botero, Giovanni.
La prima parte delle relationi vniversali di Giovanni Botero
Benese.—Bergamo, MDXCIIII.
For _Ceuola_ and _Quiuira_, libro quarto (p. 277). The text
was considerably altered and amplified in the successive
early editions. In the 1603 Spanish edition, fol. 141.
Bourke, John Gregory.
Snake dance of the Moquis of Arizona.—New York and London, 1884.
Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nuñez.
La relacion que dio Aluar nuñez cabeça de vaca de lo
acaescido . . en la armada donde yua por gouernador Pāphilo de
narbaez.—(Colophon) Zamora, 6 Octubre, 1542.
This was reprinted, with the addition of the
_Comentarios . . . del Rio de la Plata_, at Valladolid
in 1555. It was translated by Ramusio, III, fol. 310–330
(ed. 1556), and was paraphrased into English, from
Ramusio, by Purchas, _Pilgrimes_, Part IV, lib. VIII,
chap. I, pp. 1499–1528. There is a useful note regarding
the first edition of the _Naufragios_ and its author, in
Harrisse, _Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima_, p. 382. The
_Naufragios_ and _Comentarios_ were reprinted at Madrid in
1736, preceded by the _Examen Apologetico_ of Ardoino (see
entry under his name), and it is this edition which was
included in Barcia’s collection of 1749, the 1736 title
pages being preserved.
— Relacion del viaje de Pánfilo de Narvaez al Rio de las Palmas
hasta la punta de la Florida, hecha por el tesorero Cabeza de
Vaca.
_Doc. de Indias_, XIV, 265–279. Instruccion para el factor,
por el Rey, pp. 265–269. Apparently an early copy of a
fragment of the _Naufragios_. [p602]
— Relation et naufrages d’Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca—Paris, 1837.
This French translation of the _Navfragios_ forms volume VII
of Ternaux’s _Voyages_. The _Commentaires_ are contained in
volume VI. The translation is from the 1555 edition.
— Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca, translated from the
Spanish by Buckingham Smith.—New York, 1871.
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
Smith’s death. Chapters XXX–XXXVI were reprinted in an _Old
South Leaflet_, general series, No. 39, Boston.
— Relation of what befel the persons who escaped from the
disasters that attended the armament of Captain Pamphilo de
Narvaez on the shores and in the countries of the North.
_Historical Mag._ (Sept.–Dec., 1867), XII, 141, 204, 267,
347. Translated and condensed from an account printed in
Oviedo’s _Historia General_, Lib. XXXV, cap. i–vi, which was
sent to the Real Audiencia of Sancto Domingo by the four
survivors of the expedition. See Introduction, p. 349 _ante_.
— Capitulacion que se tomó con Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de
Vaca.—Madrid, 18 Marzo, 1540.
_Doc. de Indias_, XXIII, 8–33.
Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez. _See_ Paez, Juan.
Camus, Armand Gaston.
Mémoire sur la collection des grands et petits voyages (de
Théodore de Bry).—Paris, Frimaire an XI (1802).
For “Cornado,” see p. 176.
Cartas de Indias. Publícalas por primera vez el Ministerio de
Fomento.—Madrid, 1877.
This splendid volume contains 108 letters, 29 of which are
reproduced in facsimile, written from various portions of
Spanish America during the XVI century. The indices contain
a large amount of information concerning the people and
places mentioned.
Cartas de Religiosos de Nueva España. 1539–1594.—México, 1886.
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_, entitled _Códice Franciscano Siglo XVI_,
contains 14 additional letters.
Castañeda, Pedro de.
Relacion de la jornada de Cibola conpuesta por Pedro de
Castañeda de Naçera donde se trata de todos aquellos poblados
y ritos, y costumbres, la cual fue el año de 1540.
Printed for the first time in the _Fourteenth Annual
Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_, pp. 414–469, from the
manuscript in the Lenox Library in New York. This narrative
has been known chiefly through the French translation
printed in 1838 by Henri Ternaux-Compans, the title of which
follows.
— Relation du voyage de Cibola entrepris en 1540; ou l’on traite
de toutes les peuplades qui habitent cette contrée, de leurs
mœurs eú coutumes, par Pédro de Castañeda de Nagera.
Ternaux, _Cibola_, 1–246.
Castaño de Sosa, Gaspar.
Memoria del descubrimiento que Gaspar Castaño de Sosa, hizo
en el Nuevo México, siendo teniente de gobernador y capitan
general del Nuevo Reino de Leon.
_Doc. de Indias_, vol. XV, pp. 191–261. The exploring party
started 27th July, 1590, and this report was presented to
the Council 10th November, 1592.
Cervántes Salazar, Francisco.
México en 1554: Tres diálogos latinos que Francisco Cervántes
Salazar escribió é imprimió en México en dicho año. Los
reimprime, con traduccion castellana y notas, Joaquin Garcia
Icazbalceta—México, 1875.
Invaluable for anyone who wishes to understand the early
social and economic conditions of Spanish America. The
bibliography at the end of the volume is not only of great
value as a guide to the study of this history, but it is of
interest as a partial catalog of the library of Sr Garcia
Icazbalceta.
Chapin, Frederick Hastings.
The land of the cliff-dwellers.—Boston, 1892.
Congrés International des Américanistes. Compte-rendu de la
premiére session.—Nancy, 1875; . . . Actas de la Novena Reunión,
Huelva, 1892—Madrid, 1894.
Many of the papers presented at the meetings of the _Congrès
des Américanistes_, have been of the very greatest interest
to the American ethnologist and to the historian of early
Spanish America. Several of the papers presented at Berlin
in 1888 are entered under the authors’ names in the present
list.
Coronado, Francisco Vazquez.
Svmmario di lettere del Capitano Francesco Vazquez di coronado,
scritte ad vn Secretario del Illustriss. Don Antonio di
Mendozza Vicere della nuoua Spagna, Date à Culnacan, MDXXXIX,
alli otto di Marzo.
_Ramusio_, III, fol. 354, ed. 1556. Translated in Ternaux,
_Cibola_, app. V, pp. 349–351. The special value of these
Italian translations of Spanish documents, to which
reference is made in the present list, is due to the
fact that in very many cases where Ramusio used original
documents for his work later students have been unable to
discover any trace of the manuscript sources.
— Copia delle lettere di Francesco Vazquez di Coronado,
gouernatore della nuoua Galitia, al Signor Antonio di
Mendozza, Vicere della nuoua Spagna, date in san Michiel di
Culnacan, alli otto di Marzo, MDXXXIX.
_Ramusio_, III, fol. 354 verso, ed, 1556. Translated in
Ternaux, _Cibola_, app. V, pp. 352–354. [p603]
— Relatione che mandò Francesco Vazquez di Coronado, Capitano
Generale della gente che fu mandata in nome di Sua Maesta al
paese nouamente scoperto, quel che successe nel viaggio dalli
ventidua d’Aprile di questo anno MDXL, che parti da Culiacan
per innanzi, & di quel che tronò nel paese doue andaua.—Dalla
prouincia di Ceuola &, da questa citta di Granata il terzo di
Agosto, 1540.
_Ramusio_, III, fol. 359 (verso)—363, ed. 1556. This letter
is translated on pages 552–563 of the present volume. See
note on page 386. An earlier English translation by Hakluyt
has the following title:
— The relation of Francis Vazquez de Coronado, Captaine generall
of the people which were sent to the Countrey of Cibola newly
discouered, which he sent to Don Antonio de Mendoça viceroy of
Mexico, of . . his voyage from the 22. of Aprill in the yeere
1540. which departed from Culiacan forward, and of such things
as hee found in the Countrey which he passed. (August 3, 1540.)
_Hakluyt_, III, 373–380 (ed. 1600), or III, 446 (ed. 1800).
Reprinted in _Old South Leaflet_, gen. series, No. 20.
Boston.
— Carta de Francisco Vazquez Coronado al Emperador, dándole
cuenta de la espedicion á la provincia de Quivira, y de la
inexactitud de lo referido á Fr. Márcos de Niza, acerca de
aquel pais.—Desta provincia de Tiguex, 20 Octubre, 1541.
_Doc. de Indias_, III, 363–369, and also XIII, 261–268.
Translated on pages 580–583 of the present volume, and also
in _American History Leaflet_, No. 13. There is a French
translation in Ternaux, _Cibola_, app. V, p. 355–363. See
note on page 580 _ante_.
— Traslado de las nuevas y noticias que dieron sobre el
descobrimiento de una cibdad, que llamaron de Cibola, situada
en la tierra nueva.—Año de 1531 [1541].
_Doc. de Indias_, XIX, pp. 529–532. Translated on pages
564–565 of the present volume.
— Relacion del suceso de la jornada que Francisco Vazquez hizo
en el descubrimiento de Cibola.—Año de 1531 [1541].
B. Smith, _Florida_, 147–154; _Doc. de Indias_, XIV,
318–329. Translated on pages 572–579 of the present volume.
See the notes to that translation. Also translated in
_American History Leaflet_, No. 13.
Cortés, Hernan.
Copia y relacion de los gastos y espensas que . . . Fernando
Cortés hizo en el armada de que fué por capitan Cristóbal
Dolid al Cabo de las Higueras . . . Se hizo á primero de
Agosto de 1523.—Fecho en México, 9 Hebrero 1529.
_Doc. de Indias_, XII, 386–403. This document is printed
again in the same volume, pp. 497–510.
— Título de capitan general de la Nueva-España y Costa del Sur,
expedido á favor de Hernan-Cortés por el Emperador Cárlos
V.—Dada en Barcelona, á 6 Julio, 1529.
_Doc. de Indias_, IV, 572–574, and also XII, 384–386.
— Título de marqués del Valle (de Guaxaca) otorgado á Hernando
Cortés.—Barcelona, 6 Julio, 1529.
_Doc. de Indias_, XII, 381–383.
— Merced de ciertas tierras y solares en la Nueva España,
hecha á Fernan Cortés, marqués del Valle, por el
Emperador.—Barcelona, 27 Julio, 1529.
_Doc. de Indias_, XII, 376–378. It is printed also in
Icazbalceta’s _Mexico_, II, 28–29.
— Testimonio de una informacion hecha en México por el
presidente y oydores de aquella audiencia, sobre el modo de
contar los 23,000 indios, vasallos del Marqués del Valle, de
que el Rey le habia hecho merced.—Temixtitan, 23 Febrero, 1531.
_Doc. de Indias_, XVI, 548–555.
— Real provision sobre descubrimientos en el mar del Sur, y
respuesta de Cortés á la notificacion que se le hizo de
ella.—México, 19 Agosto, 1534; y respuesta, México, 26
Setiembre, 1534.
Icazbalceta’s _Mexico_, II, 31–40.
— Traslado de una provision de la Audiencia de México, dirigida
á Hernan-Cortés, mandándole que no vaya á pacificar y poblar
cierta isla del mar del Sur, insertando otra provision que
con igual fecha se envió á Nuño de Guzman, gobernador de la
Nueva Galicia, para el mismo efecto, y diligencias hechas en
apelacion do la misma.—Fecho en México, 2–26 Setiembre, 1534.
_Doc. de Indias_, XII, 417–429.
— Carta de Hernan Cortés al emperador, enviando un hijo suyo
para servicio del príncipe.—Desta Nueva Spaña, diez de
Hebrero. 1537.
_Doc. de Indias_, II, 568–569.
— Carta de Hernan Cortés, al Consejo de Indias, pidiendo ayuda
para continuar sus armadas, y recompensa para sus servicios, y
dando algunas noticias sobre la constitucion de la propiedad
de las tierras entre los indios.—México, 20 Setiembre, 1538.
_Doc. de Indias_, III, 535–543.
— Carta de Hernan Cortés al Emperador.—De Madrid á XXVI de Junio
de 1540.
_Doc. Inéd. España_, CIV, 491–492.
— Memorial que dió al Rey el Marqués del Valle en Madrid á
25 de junio de 1540 sobre agravios que le habia hecho el
Virey de Nueva España D. Antonio de Mendoza, estorbándole
la prosecucion del descubrimiento de las costas é islas del
mar del Sur que le [p604] pertenecia al mismo Marqués segun
la capitulacion hecha con S.M. el año de 1529, á cuyo efecto
habia despachado ya cuatro armadas, y descubierto con ellas
por sí y por sus capitanes muchas tierras é islas, de cuyos
viajes y el suceso que tuvo hace una relacion sucinta.
_Doc. Inéd. España_, IV, 209–217.
— Memorial dado á la Magestad del Cesar D. Cárlos Quinto,
Primero de España, por el Sr. D. Hernando Cortés, Marqués del
Valle, hallándose en estos reinos, en que hace presentes sus
dilatados servicios en la conquista de Nueva España por los
que pide las mercedes que contiene el mismo.
_Doc. Inéd. España_, IV, 219–232. “No tiene fecha . . .
despues de 1541.”
— Peticion que dió Don Hernando Cortés contra Don Antonio de
Méndoza, Virey, pidiendo residencia contre él.
Icazbalceta, _Mexico_, II, 62–71. About 1542–43.
— Historia de Nueva-España, escrita por Hernan Cortés, aumentada
con otros documentos, y notas, por Don Francisco Antonio
Lorenzana.—México, 1770.
See page 325 and the map; “Domingo del Castillo Piloto me
Fecit en Mexico año . . . M.D.XLI.” This volume contains the
letters of Cortes to the Spanish King, for a bibliographic
account of which see Sabin’s _Dictionary of American Books_.
These dispatches may also be conveniently consulted in
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
Coronado expedition. The best guide to the study of the
personal history and the conquests of Cortes is found in
Winsor’s _America_, II, pages 397–430.
Cushing, Frank Hamilton.
Zuñi fetiches.
_Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_, 1880–81,
pp. 9–45.
— A study of pueblo pottery as illustrative of Zuñi culture
growth.
_Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_, 1882–83,
pp. 467–521.
— Preliminary notes on the origin, working hypothesis and
primary researches of the Hemenway southwestern archæological
expedition.
_Congrès International des Américanistes_, 7^{me} session,
1888, pp. 151–194. Berlin, 1890.
— Zuñi breadstuff.
The _Millstone_, Indianapolis, Jan., 1884, to Aug., 1885.
— Outlines of Zuñi creation myths.
_Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_,
1891–92, pp. 321–447.
Davila, Gil Gonzalez.
Teatro eclesiastico de la primitiva iglesia de las Indias
Occidentals, vidas de svs arzobispos, obispos, y cosas
memorables de svs sedes.—Madrid, M.DC.XLIX.
These two volumes are a valuable source of biographical and
other ecclesiastical information, for much of which this is
perhaps the only authority.
Davis, William Watts Hart.
The Spanish conquest of New Mexico.—Doylestown, Pa., 1869.
The first 230 pages of this volume contain a very good
outline of the narratives of the explorations of Cabeza de
Vaca, Fray Marcos, and Coronado.
— The Spaniard in New Mexico.
Papers of the _American Historical Association_, III, 1889,
pp. 164–176. A paper read before the association, at Boston,
May 24, 1887.
De Bry, Theodore. _See_ Abelin.
Diaz del Castillo, Bernal.
Historia verdadera do la conqvista de la Nveva, España, escrita
por . . . vno de sus conquistadores.—Madrid, 1632.
This interesting work, which counteracts many of the
impressions given by the dispatches of Cortes, was reprinted
in 1632 and again in 1795, 1837, 1854, and in volume XXVI
(Madrid, 1853) of the _Bibl. de Autores Españoles_. It was
translated into English by Keating, London, 1800, reprinted
at Salem, Mass., 1803; and by Lockhart, London, 1844.
Discurso y proposicion que se hace á Vuestra Magestad de lo
tocante á los descubrimientos del Nuevo México por sus capítulos
de puntos diferentes.
_Doc. de Indias_, XVI, 38–66.
Documentos de España.
Coleccion de documentos inéditos para la historia de
España.—Madrid, 1842 (-1895).
There are now (1895) 112 volumes in this series, and two or
three volumes are usually added each year. A finding list of
the titles relating to America, in volumes I–CX, prepared by
G. P. Winship, was printed in the _Bulletin of the Boston
Public Library_ for October, 1894. A similar list of titles
in the Pacheco y Cardenas Coleccion is in preparation. Cited
as _Doc. Inéd. España_.
Documentos de Indias. _See_ Pacheco-Cardenas.
Donaldson, Thomas.
Moqui Pueblo Indians of Arizona and Pueblo Indians of New
Mexico.
_Extra Census Bulletin_, Washington, 1893. This “special
expert” report on the numbers and the life of the
southwestern village Indians contains a large number of
reproductions from photographs showing the people and their
homes, which render it of very considerable interest and
usefulness. The text is not reliable.
Drake, Francis. _See_ Fletcher, Francis.
Emory, William Hemsley.
Notes of a military reconnoissance from. Fort Leavenworth, in
Missouri, to San Diego, in California.—Washington, 1848.
Ex. Doc. 41, Thirtieth Congress, first session. [p605]
Espejo, Antonio de.
Expediente y relacion del viaje que hizo Antonio de Espejo con
catorce soldados y un religioso de la órden de San Francisco,
llamado Fray Augustin Rodriguez; el cual debía de entender en
la predicacion de aquella gente.
_Doc. de Indias_, XV, 151–191. See also page 101 of the same
volume.
— El viaie qve hizo Antonio de Espeio en el anno de ochenta y
tres: el qual con sus companneros descubrieron vna tierra en
que hallaron quinze Prouincias todas llenas de pueblos, y de
casas de quatro y cinco altos, aquien pusieron por nombre El
nueuo Mexico.
_Hakluyt_, III, 383–389 (ed. 1600). The Spanish text
is followed by an English translation, pp. 390–396. A
satisfactory monograph on the expedition of Espejo, with
annotated translations of the original narratives, would be
a most desirable addition to the literature of the southwest.
Evans, S. B.
Observations on the Aztecs and their probable relations to the
Pueblo Indians of New Mexico.
_Congrès International des Américanistes_, 7^{me} session,
1888, pp. 226–230. Berlin, 1890.
Fernández Duro, Cesáreo.
Don Diego de Peñalosa y su descubrimiento del reino de Quivira.
Informe presentado á la Real Academia de la Historia.—Madrid,
1882.
On page 123 the author accepts the date 1531 as that of an
expedition under Coronado, from the title of the _Relacion
del Suceso_, misprinted in volume XIV, 318, of the _Doc. de
Indias_.
Ferrelo, Bartolome. _See_ Paez, Juan.
Fewkes, Jesse Walter.
A few summer ceremonials at Zuñi pueblo.
_Journal American Ethnology and Archæology_, I, Boston,
1891, pp. 1–61.
— A few summer ceremonials at the Tusayan pueblos.
Ibid., II, Boston, 1892, pp. 1–159.
— Reconnoissance of ruins in or near the Zuñi reservation.
Ibid., I, pp. 95–132; with map and plan.
— A report on the present condition of a ruin in Arizona called
Casa Grande.
Ibid., II, pp. 179–193.
— The snake ceremonials at Walpi.
_Journal American Ethnology and Archæology_, IV, 1894.
With map, illustrations, and an excellent bibliography of
this peculiar ceremonial, which Dr Fewkes has studied with
much care, under most favorable circumstances.
The four volumes of the _Journal of American Ethnology and
Archæology_ represent the main results of Dr Fewkes’ studies
at Zuñi and Tusayan, under the auspices of the Hemenway
Southwestern Archæological Expedition, of which he was the
head from 1889 to 1895. Besides the _Journal_, the Hemenway
expedition resulted in a large collection of Pueblo pottery
and ceremonial articles, which are, in part, now displayed
in the Peabody Museum at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
— The Wa-wac-ka-tci-na. A Tusayan foot race.
_Bulletin Essex Institute_, XXIV, Nos. 7–9, Salem,
July–Sept., 1892, pp. 113–133.
— A-wá-to-bi: An archæological verification of a Tusayan legend.
_American Anthropologist_, Oct., 1893.
— The prehistoric culture of Tusayan.
_American Anthropologist_, May, 1896.
— A study of summer ceremonials at Zuñi and Moqui pueblos.
_Bulletin Essex Institute_, XXII, Nos. 7–9, Salem,
July–Sept., 1890, pp. 89–113.
Consult, also, many other papers by this authority on all
that pertains to the ceremonial life of the Pueblo Indians,
in the _American Anthropologist_, Washington, and _Journal
of American Folk-Lore_, Boston.
Fiske, John.
The discovery of America, with some account of ancient America
and the Spanish conquest.—Cambridge, 1892.
_Coronado_ and _Cibola_, II, 500–510.
Fletcher, Francis.
The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake. . . . Carefully
collected out of the notes of Master Francis Fletcher preacher
in this imployment.—London, 1628.
Reprinted in 1635 and 1652, and in 1854 by the _Hakluyt
Society_, edited by W. S. W. Vaux.
Gallatin, Albert.
Ancient semi-civilization of New Mexico, Rio Gila, and its
vicinity.
_Transactions American Ethnological Society_, II, New York,
1848, pp. liii–xcvii.
Galvano, Antonio.
Tratado . . dos diuersos & desuayrados caminhos, . . . & assi de
todos os descobrimentos antigos & modernos, que sāo feitos ate
a era de mil & quinhentos & cincoenta.—(Colophon, 1563.)
This work was reprinted at Lisboa in 1731. An English
translation was published by Hakluyt, London, 1601. The
Portuguese and English texts were reprinted by the _Hakluyt
Society_, edited by vice-admiral Bethune, London, 1862. For
Coronado’s expedition, see pages 226–229 of the 1862 edition.
Garcilaso de la Vega, el Ynca.
La Florida del Ynca. Historia del Adelantado de Soto . . . y de
otros heroicos caualleros Españoles è Indios.—Lisbona, 1605.
For an English version, see Barnard Shipp’s _History of
Hernando de Soto and Florida_, Philadelphia, 1881. There
were several early French editions. The Spanish was
reprinted at Madrid in 1723, and again in 1803.
— Primera parte de los commentarios reales, qve tratan del
origen do los Yncas, reyes qve fveron del Perv, de sv
idolatria, leyes, y gouierno en paz [p606] y en guerra: de
sus vidas y conquistas, y de todo lo que fue aquel Imperio y
su Republica, antes que los Españoles passaran a el.—Lisboa,
M.DCIX.
— Historia general del Perv. Trata el descvbrimiento del, y como
lo ganaron los Españoles. Las guerras ciuiles que huuo entre
Piçarros, y Almagros, sobre la partija de la tierra. Castigo y
leuantamiento de tiranos: y otros sucessos particulares que en
la historia se contienen.—Cordoua, 1616.
La II parte de los commentarios reales del Perú. Segunda
impresion; Madrid, 1721–23. The two parts were “rendred
into English, by Sir Pavl Rycavt, Kt.” London, 1688. A
new translation, with notes by Clements R. Markham, was
published by the _Hakluyt Society_, London, 1869 and 1871.
Gatschet, Albert Samuel.
Classification into seven linguistic stocks of western Indian
dialects contained in forty vocabularies.
_U.S. Geol. Survey West of the 100th Meridian_, VII,
399–485, Washington, 1879.
— Zwölf sprachen aus dem südwesten Nordamerikas.—Weimar, 1876.
Girava, Hieronymo.
Dos libros de cosmographia compuestos nueuamente por Hieronymo
Giraua Tarragones.—en Milan, M.D.LVI.
See p. 230 for _Ciuola_.
Gomara, Francisco Lopez de.
Primera y segunda parte de la historia general de las Indias con
todo el descubrimiento y cosas notables que han acaecido dende
que se ganaron ata el año de 1551. Con la cōquista de Mexico y
de la nueua España.—En Caragoça, 1553 (1552).
There were at least fifteen editions of Gomara’s three works
printed during the years 1552 to 1555. Before the end of
the century translations into French and Italian had been
reprinted a score of times. English translations of the
_Conquest of the Indies_ were printed in 1578 and 1596. For
_Coronado_, see cap. CCXII–CCXV of the _Historia de las
Indias_. Chapters 214–215 were translated by _Hakluyt_, III,
380–382 (ed. 1600), or III, 451 (ed. 1810).
Gottfriedt, Johann Ludwig. _See_ Abelin, Johann Phillip.
Guatemala, Obispo de.
Carta del Obispo de Guatemala á Su Magestad, en que se refiere
á lo que de México escribirán sobre la muerte del adelantado
Alvarado, y habla de la gobernacion que se le encomendó y de
los cargos de su mitra.—De Santiago de Guatemala 20 Febrero,
1542.
_Doc. de Indias_, XIII, 268–280.
Guzman, Diego.
Relacion de lo que yo Diego de Guzman he descobierto en la costa
de la mar del Sur, por Su Magestad y por el ilustre señor Nuño
de Guzman, gobernador de la Nueva Galicia.—Presentó en el
Consejo de Indias, 16 Marzo 1540.
_Doc. de Indias_, XV, 325–340. This expedition was made
during the autumn of 1533.
Guzman, Nuño de.
Provanza ad perpetuan, sobre lo de la villa de la Purificacion,
de la gente que alli vino con mano armada.—En Madrid á 16 de
Marzo de 1540 la presentó en el Consejo de las Indias de Su
Magestad, Nuño de Guzman.
_Doc. de Indias_, XVI, 539–547.
— Fragmentos del proceso de residencia instruido contra Nuño de
Guzman, en averiguacion del tormento y muerte que mandó dar á
Caltzontzin, rey de Mechoacan.
In Proceso. . . Alvarado (ed. Ramirez y Rayon) pp. 185–276.
The full title is entered under Alvarado.
Hakluyt, Richard.
The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries
of the English nation . . . Deuided into three seuerall
volumes.—London, 1598.
The third volume (1600) contains the narratives which
relate to Cibola, as well as those which refer to other
portions of New Spain. There was an excellent reprint,
London, 1809–1812, which contained all the pieces which were
omitted in some of the earlier editions, with a fifth volume
containing a number of rare pieces not easily available
elsewhere. The changes made by the editor of the 1890
edition render it almost a new work. The title is as follows:
— The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques, and
discoveries of the English nation. Collected by Richard
Hakluyt, preacher, and edited by Edmund Goldsmid.—Edinburg,
1885–1890.
Sixteen volumes. Vol. XIV; America, part iii, pp. 59–137,
contains the Cibola narratives.
Hakluyt Society, London.
This most useful society began in 1847 the publication of a
series of volumes containing careful, annotated translations
or reprints of works relating to the “navigations, voyages,
traffics, and discoveries” of Europeans during the period
of colonial expansion. The work has been continued without
serious interruption since that date. Ninety-seven volumes
have been issued with the society’s imprint, including the
issues for 1895. Several of these are entered in the present
list under the names of the respective authors.
Hale, Edward Everett.
Coronado’s discovery of the seven cities.
_Proceedings American Antiquarian Society_, Worcester, new
series I, 236–245. (April, 1881.) Includes a letter from
Lieut. John G. Bourke, arguing that the Cibola pueblos were
the Moki villages of Tusayan, in Arizona.
Haynes, Henry Williamson.
Early explorations of New Mexico.
Winsor’s _Narrative and Critical History of America_, II,
473–503. [p607]
— What is the true site of “the seven cities of Cibola” visited
by Coronado in 1540?
_Proceedings American Antiquarian Society_, Worcester, new
series, I, 421–435 (Oct., 1881).
The revival of interest in the early history of the
southwestern United States has been, in no slight measure,
due to the impetus given by Professor Haynes of Boston.
He was most active in furthering the researches of Mr
Bandelier, under the auspices of the Archæological Institute
of America, and to his careful editorial supervision a large
part of the accuracy and the value of Mr Bandelier’s printed
reports and communications are due.
Herrera, Antonio de.
Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas y
tierra firme del mar oceano.—Madrid, 1601–1615.
There is a French translation of three Decades of Herrera,
printed between 1659 and 1671, and an English translation
of the same three decades, by Captain John Stevens, London,
1725–26, and reissued in 1740, in which the arrangement of
the work is altered. The most available and also the best
edition of the Spanish is the admirable reprint issued at
Madrid by Barcia, in 1730. Some titles are dated as early
as 1726, being altered as successive delays hindered the
completion of the work. For _Coronado_, see decada VI, libro
v, cap. ix, and dec. VI, lib. ix, cap. xi–xv.
Hodge, Frederick Webb.
A Zuñi foot race.
_Am. Anthropologist_, III, Washington, July, 1890.
— Prehistoric irrigation in Arizona.
Ibid., VI, July, 1893.
— The first discovered city of Cibola.
Ibid., VIII, April, 1895.
— The early Navajo and Apache.
Ibid., VIII, July, 1895.
— Pueblo snake ceremonials.
Ibid., IX, April, 1896.
Holmes, William Henry.
Report on the ancient ruins of southwestern Colorado.
_Tenth Annual Report of the (Hayden) U.S. Geol. Survey._
Washington, 1876.
— Illustrated catalogue of a portion of the collections
made . . . during the field season of 1881.
_Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_, 1881–82,
pp. 427–510.
— Pottery of the ancient Pueblos.
_Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_, 1882–83,
pp. 265–360.
Icazbalceta, Joaquin Garcia.
Coleccion. de documentos para la historia de México. (2
tomos).—México, 1858–1866.
Cited in the preceding pages as _Icazbalceta’s Mexico_.
— Nueva colección de documentos para la historia de México. (5
tomos).—México, 1886–1892.
Cited as _Icazbalceta’s Nueva coleccion_.
— Don Fray Juan de Zumárraga primer obispo y arzobispo de
México. Estudio biográfico y bibligráfico. Con un apéndice de
documentos inéditos ó raros.—México, 1881.
See also the entries under Cervantes de Salazar, Mendieta,
Mota Padilla, for works edited by Señor Icazbalceta.
Possessed of ample means and scholarly tastes, untiring
industry and great historical and literary ability, Señor
Garcia Icazbalceta will always be one of the masters of
Spanish-American history. The extent of his researches,
the accuracy and care which characterize all of his work,
and the breadth and insight with which he treated whatever
subject attracted him, leave little for future students to
desire. The more intimate the student becomes with the first
century of the history of New Spain, the greater is his
appreciation of the loss caused by the death of Señor Garcia
Icazbalceta.
Informacion del virrey de Nueva España, D. Antonio de Mendoza, de
la gente que va á poblar la Nueva Galicia con Francisco Vazquez
Coronado, Gobernador de ella.—Compostella, 21–26 Febrero 1540.
_Doc. de Indias_, XIV, 373–384. Partly translated on pp.
596–597 _ante_.
Informacion habida ante la justicia de la villa de San Cristóbal
de la Habana, por do consta, el visorey (Mendoza) haber mandado
é personado que navíos algunos de los quél embiaba [no] tocasen
en la dicha villa, á fin é causa que no diesen noticia del nuevo
descobrimiento al Adelantado (de Soto).—12 Noviembre, 1539 en
Habana. Presentó en Madrid, 23 Diciembre, 1540.
_Doc. de Indias_, XV, 392–398. See page 370 _ante_.
Jaramillo, Juan.
Relacion hecha por el capitan Juan Jaramillo, de la jornada
que habia hecho á la tierra nueva en Nueva España y al
descubrimiento de Cibola, yendo por general Francisco Vazquez
Coronado.
_Doc. de Indias_, XIV, 304–317. B. Smith’s _Florida_,
154–163. Translated on pages 584–593 _ante_. There is a
French translation in Ternaux, _Cibola_, app. vi, 364–382.
King, Edward; Viscount Lord Kingsborough.
Antiquities of Mexico: comprising facsimiles of ancient Mexican
paintings and hieroglyphics . . . illustrated by many valuable
inedited manuscripts.—Mexico and London, 1830–1848.
Nine vols. Besides the reproductions of Mexican hieroglyphic
writings, for which this magnificent work is best known, the
later volumes contain a number of works printed from Spanish
manuscripts. Despite the statement on the last page of many
copies, the work was never completed, Motolinia’s _Historia_
breaking off abruptly in the midst of the text. See the note
under _King_, in Sabin’s _Dictionary of American Books_.
[p608]
Kretschmer, Konrad.
Die Entdeckung Amerika’s in ihrer Bedentung für die Geschichte
des Weltbildes.—Berlin, 1892.
Festschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin zur
vierhundertjährigen Feier der Entdeckung Amerika’s. The
atlas which accompanies this valuable study is made up of
a large number of admirable facsimiles and copies of early
maps, some of which are reproduced in the present memoir. It
is certainly the best single book for the student of early
American cartography.
Ladd, Horatio Oliver.
The story of New Mexico.—Boston, (1892).
For _Niça_ and _Coronado_, see pp. 19–72.
Leyes y ordenanças nueuamēte hechas por su magestad pa la
gouernacion de las Indias y buen tratamiento y conseruacion
de los Indios: que se han de guardar en el consejo y
andiēcias reales [~q] en ellas residen: y por todos los otros
gouernadores, juezes y personas particulares dellas.—(Colophon)
Alcala de Henares, M.D.XLIII.
These “New Laws” were reprinted in 1585 and again in 1603. A
new edition, with English translation and an introduction by
Henry Stevens and F. W. Lucas, was issued in London, 1893.
The Laws are printed in Icazbalceta, _Mexico_, II, 204–227.
— _See_ Recopilacion.
Lummis, Charles F.
— Some strange corners of our country.—New York, 1892.
— The land of poco tiempo.—New York, 1893.
— The Spanish pioneers.—Chicago, 1893.
— The man who married the moon and other Pueblo Indian
folk-stories.—New York, 1894.
Mallery, Garrick.
Sign language among North American Indians compared with that
among other peoples and deaf mutes.
_First Annual Report Bureau of Ethnology_, 1879–80, pp.
263–552. Fully illustrated.
Matthews, Washington.
Human bones of the Hemenway collection in the United States Army
Medical Museum.
_Memoirs National Academy of Sciences_, vol. VI, pp.
139–286, LIX plates. Washington, 1893.
Mendieta, Fray Gerónimo de.
Historia eclesiástica Indiana; obra escrita á fines del
siglo XVI, . . . la publica por primera vez Joaquin Garcia
Icazbalceta.—México, 1870.
Mendoza, Antonio de.
— Lo que D. Antonio de Mendoza, virey y gobernador de la Nueva
Spaña y presidente en la nueva audiencia y chancillería real
que en ella reside, demas de lo que por otra instruccion se le
ha mandado hacer por mandado de S.M.—Barcelona, 17 Abril, 1535.
_Doc. de Indias_, XXIII, 423–425.
— Lo que D. Antonio de Mendoza visorey y gobernador de la
provincia de la Nueva Spaña, ha de hacer en servicio de Dios
y de esta república, demas do lo contenido en sus poderes y
comisiones, por mandado de S. M.—Barcelona, 25 Abril, 1535.
_Doc. de Indias_, XXIII, 426–445.
— Lo que don Antonio de Mendoza virey é gobernador de la Nueva
Spaña y presidente de la real audiencia, ha de hacer en la
dicha tierra, por mandado de S. M.—Madrid, 14 Julio, 1536.
_Doc. de Indias_, XXIII, 454–467.
— Carta de D. Antonio de Mendoza á la emperatriz, participando
que vienen a España Cabeza de Vaca y Francisco Dorantes, que
se escaparon de la armada de Pánfilo de Narvaez, á hacer
relacion de lo que en ella sucedió.—Méjico, 11 Hebrero 1537.
_Doc. de Indias_, XIV, 235–236.
— Provision dada por el virey don Antonio de Mendoza al
reverendo y magnifico señor Don Vasco de Quiroga, obispo
electo de Mechoacan y oidor de Méjico, para contar los
vasallos del marqués del Valle, Don Hernando Cortés.—Méjico, á
30 Noviembre, 1537.
_Doc. de Indias_, XII, 314–318.
— Carta de D. Antonio de Mendoza, virey de Nueva España, al
Emperador, dándole cuenta de varios asuntos de su gobierno.—De
México, 10 Diciembre, 1537.
_Doc. de Indias_, II, 179–211. B. Smith, _Florida_, 119–139,
with facsimile of Mendoza’s signature.
— Instruccion de don Antonio de Mendoza, visorey de Nueva
España, (al Fray Marcos de Niza).
_Doc. de Indias_, III, 325–328, written previous to
December, 1538. There is a French translation in Ternaux,
_Cibola_, 249–253. A modern English translation is in
Bandelier, _Contributions_, 109–112.
— Lettere scritte dal illvstrissimo signor don Antonio di
Mendozza, vicere della nuoua Spagna, alia maesta dell’
Imperadore. Delli cauallieri quali con lor gran danno si sono
affaticati per scoprire il capo della terra ferma della nuoua
Spagna verso tramontana, il gionger del Vazquez con fra Marco
à san Michiel di Culnacan con commissione à quelli regenti di
assicurare & non far piu schiaui gli Indiani.
_Ramusio_, III, fol. 355 (1556 ed.). There is a French
translation in Ternaux, _Cibola_, 285–290. This appears to
be the letter which Mendoza sent to the king to accompany
the report of Fray Marcos de Niza. [p609]
— Carta del virey Don Antonio de Mendoza al Emperador.—De
Jacona, 17 Abril, 1540.
_Doc. de Indias_, II, 356–362. A French translation is in
Ternaux, _Cibola_, 290–298. For an English translation, see
pp. 547–551 _ante_.
— Instruccion que debia observar el capitan Hernando de Alarcon
en la expedicion á la California que iba á emprender de órden
del virey D. Antonio de Mendoza.—México, postrero dia del mes
de mayo de myll y quinientos y quarenta é uno.
B. Smith, _Florida_, 1–6.
— Carta de D. Antonio de Mendoza á Juan de Aguilar, pidiendo
se la autorizase para avenirse con los portugueses, sobre la
posesion de territorios conquistados . . . para que dello haga
relacion á S. A. y á los señores de su consejo.
_Doc. de Indias_, III, 506–511. B. Smith, _Florida_,
7–10. “Acerca del descubrimiento de las siete ciudades de
Poniente.” Circa 1543.
— Carta de Don Antonio de Mendoza virey de la Nueva España,
al comendador mayor de Leon, participándole la muerte del
adelantado de Guatemala y Honduras, y el estado de otros
varios asuntos.—Mexico, 10 marzo, 1542.
_Cartas de Indias_, pp. 253–255, and in facsimile.
— Carta del virey Don Antonio de Mendoza, dando cuenta al
príncipe Don Felipe de haber hecho el reparto de la tierra de
Nueva España, y exponiendo la necesidad que tenia de pasar
á Castilla, para tratar verbalmento con S. M. de ciertos
negocios de gobernacion y hacienda.—Mexico, 30 octubre, 1548.
_Cartas de Indias_, pp. 256–257.
— Carta del virey Don Antonio de Mendoza al Emperador Don
Carlos, contestando á un mandato de S. M. relativo al
repartimiento de los servicios personales en la Nueva
España.—Guastepeque, 10 junio, 1549.
_Cartas de Indies_, pp. 258–259.
— Fragmento de la visita hecha á don Antonio de Mendoza.
Interrogatorio por el cual han de ser examinados los testigos
que presente por su parte don Antonio de Mendoza.—8 Enero,
1547.
XLIV cargos, 303 paragrafos. Icazbalceta’s _Mexico_, II,
72–140.
— See the _Asiento y Capitulaciones con_ Alvarado above.
Mindeleff, Cosmos.
Casa grande ruin.
_Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_,
1891–92, pp. 295–319.
— Aboriginal remains in Verde valley, Arizona.
Ibid., pp. 179–261.
Mindeleff, Victor.
A study of pueblo architecture: Tusayan and Cibola.
_Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_, 1886–87,
pp. 1–228, CXI plates. The text and illustrations of this
admirable paper convey a very clear idea of the pueblo
dwellings of New Mexico and Arizona, and make it, on this
account, of great value to students who have never visited
these regions.
Molina, Alonso de.
Aqui comiença vn vocabulario en la lengua Castellana y
Mexicana.—(Colophon) Mexico, 1555.
Father Molina prepared a _Vocabulario_, _Arte_, and
_Confessionario_ in the Mexican languages, which are very
valuable as a means of interpreting the native words adopted
by the conquistadores. The originals, and the later editions
as well, of all three works are of very considerable rarity.
Morgan, Lewis Henry.
Houses and house life of the American aborigines.—Washington,
1881.
_Contributions to North American Ethnology_, vol. IV. Houses
of the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico, cap. VI–VIII, pp.
132–197.
— On the ruins of a stone pueblo on the Animas river, in New
Mexico, with a ground plan.
_Report of the Peabody Museum_, XII, Cambridge, 1880, pp.
536–556.
— The seven cities of Cibola.
_North American Review_, April, 1869, CVIII, 457–498.
Moses, Bernard.
The Casa de Contratacion of Seville.
_Report of the American Historical Association_ for 1894,
Washington, 1895, pp. 93–123. This paper is a very useful
outline of the legal constitution and functions of the Casa
de Contratacion, derived for the most part from Capt. John
Stevens’ English version (London, 1702) of Don Joseph de
Veitia Linage’s _Norte de la Contratacion de las Indias
Occidentales_. (Seville, 1672.)
There is an admirable account of the form of government
adopted by the Spaniards for New Spain, by Professor Moses,
in the _Yale Review_, vol. iv, numbers 3 and 4 (November,
1895, and February, 1896).
Mota Padilla, Matias de la.
Historia de la conquista de la provincia de la Nueva-Galicia,
escrita en 1742.—Mexico, 1870.
Published in the _Boletin_ of the Sociedad Mexicana de
Geografia y Estadistica, and also issued separately with
_Noticias Biograficas_ by Señor Garcia Icazbalceta, dated
Marzo 12 de 1872. It is an extensive work of the greatest
value, although there are reasons for fearing that the
printed text is not an accurate copy of the original
manuscript. Cited as _Mota Padilla_.
Motolinia, Fray Toribio de Benavente ó.
Historia de los Indies de la Nueva España.
Icazbalceta’s _Mexico_, I, pp. 249, with an introduction of
100 pp. by Sr José Fernando Ramirez; in _Doc. de España_,
LIII, 297–574; and also printed in Lord Kingsborough’s
_Antiquities of Mexico_, vol. IX. See note under King. [p610]
— Esta es la relación postrera de Sívola, y de más de
cuatrocientas leguas adelante.
A manuscript found among the “Memoriales” de Motolinia, now
in the archives of the late Sr Icazbalceta. Printed for the
first time in the present volume. See pages 566–571 _ante_.
Muriel, Domingo.
Fasti Novi Orbis et ordinationum apostolicarum, . . . opera D.
Cyriaci Morelli.—Venetiis, MDCCLXXVI.
See page 23 for a mention of events in 1539–1542.
Niza, Fray Marcos de.
Relacion del descubrimiento de las siete ciudades, por el P. Fr.
Márcos de Niza.—2 Setiembre 1539.
_Doc. de Indias_, III, 325–351. Translated into Italian by
_Ramusio_, III, fol. 350–359 (1556 ed.), and thence into
English by _Hakluyt_, III, 366–373 (1600 ed.). A French
translation is in Ternaux, _Cibola_, app. I and II, 249–284.
Nordenskiöld, Gustav.
The cliff dwellers of the Mesa Verde, southwestern Colorado,
their pottery and implements. Translated by D. Lloyd
Morgan.—Stockholm, 1894.
Chapter XIV, “The Pueblo tribes in the sixteenth century,”
pp. 144–166, contains a translation of portions of
Castañeda, from the French version.
Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo Fernandez de.
La historia general de las Indias.—(Colophon) Seuilla, 1535.
Reprinted at Salamanca in 1547, and at Madrid in 1851, as
follows:
— 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
las enmiendas y adiciones del autor, é ilustrada . . por D.
José Amador de los Rios.—Madrid, 1851–1855.
These four volumes form the definitive edition of Oviedo.
They were printed from the author’s manuscript, and include
the fourth volume, which had not hitherto been printed.
Owens, John G.
Natal ceremonies of the Hopi Indians.
_Journal Am. Ethnology and Archæology_ (Boston, 1893), II,
163–175.
Pacheco-Cardenas Coleccion.
Coleccion de documentos inéditos relativos al descubrimiento,
conquista, y colonizacion de las posesiones españolas en
América y Occeanía, sacados . . bajo la direccion de D.
Joaquin F. Pacheco y D. Francisco de Cárdenas.—Madrid,
1864–1884.
In 42 volumes. The title-page varies much from year to year.
There is as yet no useful index in print. Cited as _Doc. de
Indias_.
Paez, Juan.
Relacion del descubrimiento que hizo Juan Rodriguez [Cabrillo]
navegando por la contracosta del mar del Sur al Norte, hecha
por Juan Paez.
_Doc. de Indias_, XIV, 165–191; B. Smith, _Florida_,
173–189. Partió 27 Junio 1542. This report, which was
probably written by the pilot Bartolome Ferrel or Ferrelo,
has been translated in the _Report of the U.S. Geol. Survey
West of the 100th Meridian_, VII, 293–314. See note on page
412 _ante_.
Peralta. _See_ Suarez de Peralta.
Prince, Le Baron Bradford.
Historical sketches of New Mexico from the earliest records to
the American occupation.—New York and Kansas City, 1883.
For _Cabeza de Baca_, _Marcos de Niza_, and _Coronado_, see
pp. 40–148.
Proceso del Marqués del Valle y Nuño de Guzman y los adelantados
Soto y Alvarado, sobre el descubrimiento de la tierra nueva—en
Madrid, 3 Marzo, 1540; 10 Junio, 1541.
_Doc. de Indias_, XV, 300–408. See page 380 _ante_.
Proctor, Edna Dean.
The song of the ancient people.—Boston 1893.
Contains preface and note by John Fiske and commentary by F.
H. Cushing.
Ptolemy, C.
La Geografia di Clavdio Ptolemeo, con alcuni comenti & aggiunti
fatteui da Sebastiano munstero, con le tauole non solamente
antiche & moderne solite di stāparsi, ma altre nuoue.—In
Venetia, M.D.XLVIII.
The maps in this edition of Ptolemy’s _Geography_ for the
first time present the results of Coronado’s explorations.
See plate XLI _ante_. The bibliography of Ptolemy has been
set forth with great clearness and in most convenient form
by Dr Justin Winsor in the _Bibliographical Contributions_
of the Harvard College Library, No. 18; and with greater
detail by Mr Wilberforce Eames, in volume XVI of Sabin’s
_Dictionary of American Books_.
Purchas, Samuel.
Pvrchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the
religions observed and places discouered . . .—London, 1613.
The eighth book, America, chap. VII, _Of Cibola, Tiguez,
Quivira, and Noua Albion_, pp. 648–653. There were two
editions of this work in 1614, one in 1617, and one, the
best, in 1626, forming the fifth volume of the _Pilgrimes_.
— Haklvytvs posthumus or Purchas, his pilgrimes. Contayning a
history of the world, in sea voyages, & lande-trauells, by
Englishmen & others . . . In fower parts, each containing fiue
bookes. By Samvel Pvrchas.—London, 1625.
Part (volume) IV, pp. 1560–1562, gives a sketch of the
discovery of Cibola and Quivira, abridged from Ramusio. The
best guide to the confused bibliography of Purchas is that
of Mr Wilberforce Eames, in vol. XVI of Sabin’s _Dictionary
of American Books_. [p611]
Putnam, Frederick Ward.
The pueblo ruins and the interior tribes. Edited by Frederick W.
Putnam.
_U.S. Geog. Survey West 100th Meridian_, VII, Archæology pt.
ii, p. 315, Washington, 1879. Appendix (p. 399) contains
Albert S. Gatschet’s classification into seven linguistic
stocks, etc.
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista.
Terzo volvme delle navigationi et viaggi.—In Venetia. MDLVI.
In this, the first edition of the third volume of Ramusio’s
collection, folios 354–370 contain the narratives which
relate to the discoveries in the territory of the present
southwestern United States. The volumes of Ramusio have
an especial value, because in many cases the editor and
translator used the originals of documents which have not
since been found by investigators. Ramusio’s Italian text
furnished one chief reliance of Hakluyt, and of nearly all
the collectors and translators who followed him, including,
in the present century, Henri Ternaux-Compans. The best
guide to the various issues and editions of Ramnsio is that
of Mr Wilberforce Eames, in Sabin’s _Dictionary of American
Books_. The most complete single edition of the three
volumes is that of 1606.
Recopilacion de leyes de los reynos de las Indias. Mandadas
imprimir, y pvblicar por la magestad catolica del rey don Carlos
II. Tomo I (-IV).—Madrid, 1681.
New editions were issued in 1756, 1774, and 1791.
Ribas, Andres Perez de.
Historia de los trivmphos de nvestra Santa Fee entre gentes
del nueuo Orbe: refierense assimismo las costvmbres, ritos,
y supersticiones que vsauan estas gentes; sus puestos, y
temples: . . .—Madrid, 1645.
The mass of facts collected into this heavy volume throw
much light on the civil as well as the ecclesiastical
history of New Spain.
Rudo Ensayo, tentativa de una prevencional descripcion geographica
de la provincia de Sonora, . . . compilada así de noticias
adquiridas por el colector en sus viajes por casi toda ella,
como subministradas por los padres missioneros y practicos de la
tierra.—San Augustin de la Florida, 1863.
Edited by Buckingham Smith. An English translation by
Eusebio Guitéras is in the _Records of the American Catholic
Historical Society_, Philadelphia, June, 1894.
Ruge, Sophus.
Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen.—Berlin, 1881.
In _Allgemeine Geschichte_, von Wilhelm Oncken. _Coronado’s
Feldzug nach Cibola und Quivira_, pp. 415–423. The map
on page 417 is one of the best suggestions of Coronado’s
probable route.
— Die Entdeckungs-Geschichte der Neuen Welt.
In _Hamburgische Festschrift zur Erinnerung an die
Entdeckung Amerika’s_, Hamburg, 1892. I Band. _Coronado’s
Zug nach Cibola und Quivira_, pp. 87–89.
— Die Entwickelung der Kartographie von America bis 1570.—Gotha,
1892.
Festschrift zur 400 jährigen Feier der Entdeckung Amerikas.
Ergänzungsheft no. 106 zu “Petermann’s Mitteilungen.” An
admirable outline of the early history of the geographical
unfolding of America.
Salazar, Francisco Cervantes. _See_ Cervantes Salazar.
Santisteban, Fray Gerónimo de.
Carta escrita por Fr. Gerónimo de Santisteban á don Antonio
Mendoza, virey de Nueva España, relacionando la pérdida de la
armada que salió en 1542 para las islas del poniente, al cargo
de Ruy Lopez de Villalobos.—De Cochin, de la India del Rey de
Portugal. 22 Henero 1547.
_Doc. de Indias_, XIV, 151–165. See page 412 _ante_.
Savage, James Woodruff.
The discovery of Nebraska.
_Nebraska, Historical Society Transactions_, I, 180–202.
Read before the Society, April 16, 1880. In this paper Judge
Savage accepts the statements that Quivira was situated
in latitude 40 degrees north as convincing evidence that
Coronado’s Spaniards explored the territory of the present
State of Nebraska. This paper, together with one by the same
author on “A visit to Nebraska, in 1662” (by Peñalosa), was
reprinted by the Government Printing Office (Washington,
1893) for the use of the United States Senate, for what
purpose the resolution ordering the reprint does not state.
It forms Senate Mis. Doc. No. 14, 53d Congress, 2d session.
Schmidt, Emil.
Vorgesehichte Nordamerikas im Gebiet der Vereinigten
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Die vorgeschichtlichen Indianer im Südwesten der Vereinigten
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Nordenskiöld and V. Mindeleff.
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe.
Historical and statistical information respecting the history,
condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United
States.—Philadelphia, 1851–1855.
For _Coronado’s expedition_ see vol. IV, pp. 21–40.
Schoolcraft’s map of Coronado’s route is opposite p. 38.
Shipp, Barnard.
The history of Hernando de Soto and Florida; or, record of the
events of fifty-six years, from 1512 to 1568.—Philadelphia,
1881.
For _Coronado_, see pp. 121–132.
Simpson, James Hervey.
Journal of a military reconnaissance from Santa Fé, New Mexico,
to the Navajo country.
_Senate Ex. Doc_. 64, 31st Congress, 1st sess., Washington,
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— Coronado’s march in search of the “Seven Cities of Cibola,”
and discussion of their probable location.
_Smithsonian Report_ for 1869, pp. 309–340. Reprinted by
the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1884. Contains an
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Smith, (Thomas) Buckingham.
Coleccion de varios documentos para la historia de la Florida y
tierras adyacentes. Tomo I [1516–1794].—Londres (Madrid, 1857).
Only one volume was ever published. Cited as B. Smith’s
_Florida_. These documents are printed, for the most part,
from copies made by Muñoz or by Navarrete. See note to the
English translation of Cabeza de Vaca’s _Naufragios_, and
see also Rudo Ensayo and Soto.
Sosa, Gaspar Castaño de. _See_ Castaño de Sosa.
Soto, Hernando de.
Asiento y capitulacion hechos por el capitan Hernando de Soto
con el Emperador Carlos V para la conquista y poblacion de la
provincia de la Florida, y encomienda de la gobernacion, de la
isla de Cuba.—Valladolid, 20 Abril, 1537.
_Doc. de Indias_, XV, 351–363. B. Smith, _Florida_, 140–146.
— Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest
of Florida, as told by a Knight of Elvas and in a relation by
Luys Hernandez de Biedma, factor of the expedition. Translated
by Buckingham Smith.—New York, 1866.
Bradford Club series, V.
— Letter of Hernando de Soto [in Florida, to the Justice and
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memoir of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda. Translated from the
Spanish by Buckingham Smith.—Washington, 1854.
This is not the place for an extensive list of the sources
for the history of de Soto’s expedition, and no effort has
been made to do more than mention two volumes which have
proved useful during the study of the Coronado expedition.
The best guide for the student of the travels of de Soto
and Narvaez is the critical portions of John Gilmary Shea’s
chapter in Winsor’s _Narrative and Critical History of
America_, vol. II, pp. 283–298.
Squier, Ephraim George.
New Mexico and California. The ancient monuments, and the
aboriginal, semicivilized nations, . . . with an abstract of
the early Spanish explorations and conquests.
_American Review_, VIII, Nov., 1848, pp. 503–528. Also
issued separately.
Stevens, John.
A new dictionary, Spanish and English. . . . Much more copious
than any hitherto extant, with . . . proper names, the
surnames of families, the geography of Spain and the West
Indies.—London, 1726.
Captain John Stevens was especially well read in the
literature of the Spanish conquest of America, and his
dictionary is often of the utmost value in getting at
the older meaning of terms which were employed by the
conquistadores in a sense very different from their present
use. Captain Stevens translated Herrera and Veitia Linage
(see note under Moses), taking very great liberties with the
texts.
Stevenson, James.
(Illustrated catalogues of collections obtained from the Indians
of New Mexico in 1879, 1880, and 1881.)
_Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_, 1880–81,
pp. 307–465; _Third Annual Report_, 1881–82, pp. 511–594.
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe.
The religious life of the Zuñi child.
_Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_, 1883–84,
pp. 539–555.
— The Sia.
_Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_,
1889–90, pp. 9–157.
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Tratado del descubrimiento de las Yndias y su conquista,
y los ritos . . . de los yndios; y de los virreyes y
gobernadores, . . . y del principio que tuvo Francisco Draque
para ser declarado enemigo.—Madrid, 1878.
See entry under Zaragoza and note on page 377 _ante_. This
very valuable historical treatise was written in the last
third of the XVI century.
Tello, Fray Antonio.
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1650, por el Padre Fray Antonio Tello, de la órden de San
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Icazbalceta’s _Mexico_, II, 343–438. Chapters viii–xxxix are
all that are known to have survived.
Ternaux-Compans, Henri.
Voyages, relations et mémoires originaux pour servir a
l’histoire de la découverte de l’Amerique publiés pour la
première fois, en français.—Paris, 1837–1841.
Twenty volumes. Volume IX contains the translation of
_Castañeda_, and of various other narratives relating to
the Coronado expedition. These narratives are referred to
under the authors’ names in the present list. It is cited as
Ternaux’s _Cibola_.
Thomas, Cyrus.
Quivira: A suggestion.
_Magazine of American History_ X, New York, Dec., 1883, pp.
490–496.
Tomson, Robert.
The voyage of Robert Tomson marchant, into Noua Hispania in the
yeere 1555, with diuers obseruations concerning the state of
the countrey: And certaine accidents touching himselfe.
_Hakluyt_, III, 447–454 (ed. 1600). See note on page 375
_ante_.
Torquemada, Juan de.
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origen y guerras de los Yndios Occidentales. Compvesto por
Fray Ivan de Torquemada, Ministro Prouincial de la orden de S.
Françisco en Mexico, en la Nueba España.—Seuilla, 1615.
This work was reprinted at Madrid in 1723 by Barcia. This,
the second, is the better edition. The first two volumes
contain an invaluable mass of facts concerning [p613] the
natives of New Spain. The comments by the author are, of
course, of less significance.
Ulloa, Francisco de.
A relation of the discouery, which in the name of God the fleete
of the right noble Fernando Cortez Marques of the Vally, made
with three ships; the one called Santa Agueda of 120. tunnes,
the other the Trinitie of 35. tunnes, and the thirde S. Thomas
of the burthen of 20. tunnes. Of which fleete was captaine the
right worshipfull knight Francis de Vlloa borne in the citie
of Merida.
_Hakluyt_, III, 397–424 (ed. 1600). Translated from Ramusio,
III, fol. 339–354 (ed. 1556).
— _See_ Alarcon.
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historicos, politicos, militares y religiosos del nuevo mundo
Occidental de las Indias.—México, 1698.
— Menologio Franciscano de los Varones mas señalados, quo con
sus vidas exemplares . . . ilustraron la Provincia de el Santo
Evangelio de Mexico.
This work forms a part of the second volume of the Teatro
Mexicano.
Villagra, Gaspar de.
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Villalobos, Ruy Lopez de. _See_ Santisteban, Fray Gerónimo de.
Ware, Eugene F.
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_Agora_, Lawrence, Kansas, Nov., 1895 [not completed.] A
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_Pacific Railroad Reports_, vol. III, pt. 3, Washington,
1856.
Winship, George Parker.
A list of titles of documents relating to America, in volumes
I–CX of the Coleccion de documentos inéditos para la historia
de España.
_Bulletin of the Boston Public Library_, October, 1894.
Reprinted, 60 copies.
— The Coronado Expedition, 1540–1542.
_Fourteenth Annual Report Bureau of Ethnology_, Washington,
1896. Contains the Spanish text of Castañeda, and
translations of the original narratives.
— Why Coronado went to New Mexico in 1540.
_Papers of American Historical Association_, 1894,
Washington, 1895, pp. 83–92.
— New Mexico in 1540.
_Boston Transcript_, Oct. 14, 1893. A translation of the
_Relation de lo que . . . Alvarado y Padilla descubrieron_.
— Coronado’s journey to New Mexico and the great plains.
1540–1542.
_American History Leaflet_, No. 13, New York, 1894.
Contains a translation of the _Relacion del Suceso_, and of
Coronado’s _Letter to Mendoza_, 20 October, 1541.
Winsor, Justin.
Narrative and critical history of America, edited by Justin
Winsor (8 volumes).—Boston, 1889.
Besides Professor Haynes’ chapter in volume II, pp. 473–503
(see entry under Haynes), the same volume contains chapters
by Dr Winsor on _Discoveries on the Pacific Coast of North
America_, pp. 431–472; by Clements R. Markham on _Pizarro
and the Conquest and Settlement of Peru and Chile_, pp.
505–573, and by John G. Shea on _Ancient Florida_, pp.
231–298. The fact that special investigators in minute
fields of historical study have found omissions and errors
in this encyclopedic work only serves to emphasize the value
of the labors of Dr Winsor. There is hardly a subject of
study in American history in which the student will not, of
necessity, begin his work by consulting the critical and
bibliographical portions of Winsor’s _America_.
Wytfliet, Cornelius.
Descriptionis Ptolemaicæ Avgmentvm, siue Occidentis Notitia
Breui commentario illustrata Studio et opera Cornely Wytfliet
Louaniensis.—Lovanii, M.D.XCVII.
For _Coronado_, see p. 170, or p. 91 of the French
translation of 1611. Qvivira et Anian. See plates LI–LIII
_ante_.
Zamacois, Niceto de.
Historia de Méjico desde sus tiempos mas remotos.—Méjico,
1878–1888.
Nineteen volumes. For the chronicle of events in New Spain
during the years 1535–1546, see vol. IV, 592–715.
Zaragoza, Justo.
Noticias históricas de la Nueva España.—Madrid, 1878.
In this volume Señor Zaragoza has added much to the inherent
value of the Tratado of Suarez de Peralta (see entry above)
by his ample and scholarly notes, and by a very useful
“Indice geográfico, biográfico, y de palabras Americanas.”
These indices, within their inevitable limitations, contain
a great deal of information for which the student would
hardly know where else to look. This is equally true of the
indices to the _Cartas de Indias_, for the excellence of
which Señor Zaragoza was largely responsible.
FOOTNOTES
NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL, pp. 339–412
[1] The Indian’s story is in the first chapter of Castañeda’s
Narrative. Some additional information is given in Bandelier’s
Contributions to the History of the Southwest, the first chapter
of which is entitled “Sketch of the knowledge which the Spaniards
in Mexico possessed of the countries north of the province of New
Galicia previous to the return of Cabeza de Vaca.” For bibliographic
references to this and other works referred to throughout this
memoir, see the list at the end of the paper.
[2] The most important source of information regarding the expedition
of Narvaez is the Relation written by Cabeza de Vaca. This is best
consulted in Buckingham Smith’s translation. Mr Smith includes in
his volume everything which he could find to supplement the main
narration. The best study of the route followed by the survivors of
the expedition, after they landed in Texas, is that of Bandelier
in the second chapter of his Contributions to the History of the
Southwest. In this essay Bandelier has brought together all the
documentary evidence, and he writes with the knowledge obtained
by traveling through the different portions of the country which
Cabeza de Vaca must have traversed. Dr J. G. Shea, in his chapter
in the Narrative and Critical History of America, vol. ii, p. 286,
disagrees in some points with Mr Bandelier’s interpretation of the
route of Cabeza de Vaca west of Texas, and also with Mr Smith’s
identifications of the different points in the march of the main army
before it embarked from the Bahia de los Cavallos. Other interesting
conjectures are given in H. H. Bancroft’s North Mexican States, vol.
i, p. 63, and map at p. 67.
[3] Buckingham Smith collected in his Letter of Hernando de Soto, pp.
57–61, and in his Narrative of the Career of Hernando de Soto (see
index), all that is known in regard to Ortiz, one of the soldiers of
Narvaez, who was found among the Indians by De Soto in 1540.
[4] Mendoza to Charles V, 10 Diciembre, 1537. Cabeza de Vaca y
Dorantes, . . . despues de haber llegado aquí, determinaron de irse
en España, y viendo que si V. M. era servido de enviar aquella tierra
alguna gente para saber de cierto lo que era, no quedaba persona que
pudiese ir con ella ni dar ninguna razon, compré á Dorantes para este
efecto un negro que vino de allá y se halló con ellos en todo, que
se llama Estéban, por ser persona de razon. Despues sucedió, como el
navio en que Dorantes ibase volvió al puerto, y sabido esto, yo le
escribí á la Vera-Cruz, rogándole que viniese aquí; y como llegó á
esta ciudad, yo le hablé diciéndole que hubiese por bien de volver
á esta tierra con algunos religiosos y gente de caballo, que yo le
daria á calalla, y saber de cierto lo que en ella habia. Y él vista
mi voluntad, y el servicio que yo le puse delantre que hacia con
ello á Dios y á V. M., me respondió que holgaba dello, y así estoy
determinado de envialle allá con la gente de caballo y religiosos que
digo. Pienso que ha de redundar dello gran servicio á Dios y á V.
M.—From the text printed in Pacheco y Cardenas, Docs. de Indias, ii,
206.
[5] Some recent writers have been misled by a chance comma inserted
by the copyist or printer in one of the old narratives, which divides
the name of Maldonado—Alonso del Castillo, Maldonado—making it appear
as if there were five instead of four survivors of the Narvaez
expedition who made their way to Mexico.
[6] Besides the general historians, we have Cabeza de Vaca’s own
account of his career in Paraguay in his Comentarios, reprinted in
Vedia, Historiadores Primitivos, vol. i. Ternaux translated this
narrative into French for his Voyages, part vi.
[7] The Spanish text of this letter has not been seen since Ramusio
used it in making the translation for his Viaggi, vol. iii, fol.
355, ed. 1556. There is no date to the letter as Ramusio gives it.
Ternaux-Compans translated it from Ramusio for his Cibola volume
(Voyages, vol. ix, p. 287). It is usually cited from Ternaux’s
title as the “Première lettre de Mendoza.” I quote from the French
text the portion of the letter which explains my narrative: “. . .
Andrès Dorantès, un de ceux qui firent partie de l’armée de Pamphilo
Narvaez, vint près de moi. J’eus de fréquents entretiens avec lui;
je pensai qu’il pouvait rendre un grand service à votre majesté;
si je l’expédiais avec quarante ou cinquante chevaux et tous les
objets nécessaires pour découvrir ce pays. Je dépensai beaucoup
d’argent pour l’expédition, mais je ne sais pas comment il se fit que
l’affaire n’eut pas de suite. De tous les préparatifs que j’avais
faits, il ne me resta qu’un nègre qui est venu avec Dorantès,
quelques esclaves que j’avais achetés, et des Indiens, naturels de ce
pays, que j’avais fait rassembler.”
[8] Two of these are extant—the Relacion of Cabeza de Vaca and
Oviedo’s version of an account signed by the three Spaniards and sent
to the Real Audiencia at Santo Domingo, in his Historia General de
las Indias, lib. xxxv, vol. iii, p. 582, ed. 1853.
[9] See Buckingham Smith’s translation of Cabeza de Vaca’s Narrative,
p. 150.
[10] The effect of the stories told by Cabeza de Vaca, and later by
Friar Marcos, is considered in a paper printed in the Proceedings
of the American Historical Association at Washington, 1894, “Why
Coronado went to New Mexico in 1540.”
[11] The best sources for these proceedings is in Mota Padilla’s
Historia de la Nueva Galicia (ed. Icazbalceta, pp. 104–109). A more
available account in English is in H. H. Bancroft’s Mexico, vol. ii,
p. 457.
[12] An official investigation into the administration of an official
who is about to be relieved of his duties.
[13] The best account, in English, of the Casa de Contratacion is
given by Professor Bernard Moses, of Berkeley, California, in the
volume of papers read before the American Historical Association at
its 1894 meeting.
[14] See Fragmentos de una Historia de la Nueva Galicia, by Father
Tello (Icazbalceta, Documentos de Mexico, vol. ii, p. 369).
[15] Mendoza, in the “première lettre,” gives a brief sketch of the
efforts which Cortes had been making, and then adds: “Il ne put
donc jamais en faire la conquête; il semblait même que Dieu voulût
miraculeusement l’en eloigner.” Ternaux, Cibola volume, p. 287.
[16] On the maps it is usually designated as S. †.
[17] The details of this episode are given in the relations and
petitions of Cortes. H. H. Bancroft tells the story in his North
Mexican States, vol. i, p. 77. The Cortes map of 1536 is reproduced,
from a tracing, in Winsor’s Narrative and Critical History of
America, vol. ii, p. 442.
[18] This is the story which Garcilaso de la Vega tells in his
Commentales Reales, pt. II, lib. ii.
[19] Contributions to the History of the Southwest, pp 79–103.
[20] This region is identified by Bandelier in his Contributions, p.
104, note. The letter from which the details are obtained, written to
accompany the report of Friar Marcos when this was transmitted to the
King, is in Ramusio, and also in Ternaux, Cibola volume, p. 285.
[21] This certification, with the report of Friar Marcos and other
documents relating to him, is printed in the Pacheco y Cardenas
Coleccion, vol. iii, pp. 325–351.
[22] The instructions given to Friar Marcos have been translated by
Bandelier in his Contributions, p. 109. The best account of Friar
Marcos and his explorations is given in that volume.
[23] Herrera, Historia General, dec. VI, lib. vii, cap. vii.
[24] Bandelier, in his Contributions, p. 122, says this was “about
the middle of April,” but his chronology at this point must be at
fault.
[25] See F. W. Hodge, “Aboriginal Use of Adobes,” The Archæologist,
Columbus, Ohio, August, 1895.
[26] These are described in the Castañeda narrative.
[27] In lieu of turquoises the Pima and Maricopa today frequently
wear small beaded rings pendent from the ears and septum.
[28] Bandelier, Contributions, pp. 154, 155.
[29] There is an admirable and extended account, with many
illustrations, of the Apache medicine men, by Captain John G. Bourke
in the ninth report of the Bureau of Ethnology.
[30] This is precisely the method pursued by the Zuñis today
against any Mexicans who may be found in their vicinity during the
performance of an outdoor ceremonial.
[31] This question has been fully discussed by F. W. Hodge. See
“The First Discovered City of Cibola,” American Anthropologist,
Washington, April, 1895.
[32] Tomson’s exceedingly interesting narrative of his experiences in
Mexico is printed in Hakluyt, vol. iii, p. 447, ed. 1600.
[33] Compare the ground plan of Hawikuh, by Victor Mindeleff, in the
eighth annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology, pl. XLVI, with the
map of the city of Mexico (1550?), by Alonzo de Santa Cruz, pl. XLIII
of this paper.
[34] Diaz started November 17, 1539. The report of his trip is given
in Mendoza’s letter of April 17, 1540, in Pacheco y Cardenas, ii, p.
356, and translated herein.
[35] The Spanish text from which I have translated may be found
on pages 144 and 148 of Zaragoza’s edition of Suarez de Peralta’s
Tratado. This edition is of the greatest usefulness to every student
of early Mexican history.
[36] The depositions as printed in the Pacheco y Cardenas Docs. de
Indias, vol. xv., pp. 392–398, are as follows: Pedro Nuñez, testigo
rescebido en la dicha razon, juró segun derecho, é dijo: . . . que
estando en la ciudad de México, puede haber tres meses [the evidence
being taken November 12, 1539], poco mas ó menos, oyó decir este
testigo públicamente, que habia venido un fraile Francisco, que se
dice Fray Marcos, que venia la tierra adentro, é que decia el dicho
fraile que se habia descobierto una tierra muy rica é muy poblada; é
que habia cuatrocientas leguas dende México allá; é que dice que han
de ir allá por cerca del río de Palmas; . . .
Garcia Navarro, . . . oyó decir publicamente, puede haber un mes ó
mes y medio [and so all the remaining witnesses] que habia venido
un fraile, nuevamente, de una tierra, nuevamente descobierta, que
dicen ques quinientas leguas de México, en la tierra de la Florida,
que dicen ques hácia la parte del Norte de la dicha tierra; la cual
diz, que es tierra rica de oro é plata é otros resgates, é grandes
pueblos; que las casas son de piedra é terrados á la manera de
México, é que tienen peso é medida, é gente de razon, é que no casan
mas de una vez, é que visten albornoces, é que andan cabalgando en
unos animales, que no sabe cómo se llaman, . . .
Francisco Serrano, . . . el fraile venia por tierra, por la via
de Xalisco; é ques muy rica é muy poblada é grandes ciudades
cercadas; é que los señores dellas, se nombran Reyes; é que las
casas son sobradas, é ques gente de mucha razon; que la lengua es
mexicana, . . .
Pero Sanchez, tinturero . . . una tierra nueva muy rica é muy poblada
de ciudades é villas; . . . por la vía de Xalisco . . . hácia en
medio de la tierra. . . .
Francisco de Leyva . . . en la Vera-Cruz, oyó decir que habia venido
un fraile de una tierra nueva muy rica é muy poblada de ciudades é
villas, é ques á la banda del Sur, . . . Otrosí, dixo: que es verdad
que no embargante que no toca en este puerto, dejaba de seguir su
viaje; pero que entró en este puerto por necesidad que llevaba
de agua é otros bastimentos é de ciertas personas que venian muy
enfermos.
Hernando de Sotomayor . . . questando en la Puebla de los
Angeles . . . públicamente se decia . . . é que las casas son de
piedras sobradadas, é las ciudades cercadas, é gente de razon; . . .
é questa dicha tierra es la parte donde vino Dorantes é Cabeza de
Vaca, los cuales escaparon de la armada de Narvaez; é que sabe é vido
este testigo, que fué mandado al maestre por mandado del Virey é
con su mandamiento, que no tocase en parte ninguna, salvo que fuese
derechamente á España, con la dicha nao, é quel secretario del Virey
hizo un requirimiento al dicho maestre, viniendo por la mar, que no
tocase en este puerto ni en otra parte destas islas. . . . [This
statement appears in each deposition.]
Andrés Garcia, dixo: . . . questando en la ciudad de México, un
Francisco de Billegas le dió cartas para dar en esta villa, para
dar al Adelantado D. Hernando de Soto, é si no lo hallase, que las
llevase á España é las diese al hacedor suyo; é queste testigo tiene
un yerno barbero que afeitaba al fraile que vino de la dicha tierra;
é quel dicho su yerno, le dixo este testigo, questando afeitando
al dicho fraile, le dixo como antes que llegasen á la dicha tierra
estaba una sierra, é que pasando la dicha sierra estaba un río, é
que habia muchas poblazones de ciudades é villas, é que las ciudades
son cercadas é guardadas á las puertas, é muy ricas; é que habia
plateros; é que las mugeres traian sartas de oro é los hombres
cintos de oro, é que habia albarnios é obejas é vacas é perdices é
carnicerias é herreria, é peso é medida; é que un Bocanegra, dixo
á este testigo que se quedare, que se habia descobierto un nuevo
mundo. . . .
[37] The document, as printed in Doc. Inéd. Hist. España, vol. iv,
pp. 209–217, is not dated. The date given in the text is taken from
the heading or title to the petition, which, if not the original,
has at least the authority of Señor Navarrete, the editor of this
Coleccion when the earlier volumes were printed. This memorial
appears, from the contents, to have been one of the documents
submitted in the litigation then going on between the rival claimants
for the privilege of exploring the country discovered by Friar
Marcos, although the document is not printed with the other papers in
the case.
[38] Documentos Inéditos Hist. España, vol. iv, p. 211: Memorial
que dió el Marqués del Valle en Madrid á 25 de Junio de 1540. . . .
“Al tiempo que yo vine de la dicha tierra el dicho Fray Marcos
habló conmigo . . . é yo le dí noticia de esta dicha tierra y
descubrimiento de ella, porque tenia determinacion de enviarlo en
mis navíos en proseguimiento y conquista de la dicha costa y tierra,
porque parescia que se le entendia algo de cosas de navegacion: el
cual dicho fraile lo comunicó con el dicho visorey, y con su licencia
diz que fué por tierra en demanda de la misma costa y tierra que yo
habia descubierto, y que era y es de mi conquista; y despues que
volvió el dicho fraile ha publicado que diz que llegó á vista de la
dicha tierra; lo cual yo niego haber él visto ni descubierto, antes
lo que el dicho fraile refiere haber visto, lo ha dicho y dice por
sola la relacion que yo le habia hecho de la noticia que tenia de los
indios de la dicha tierra de Santa Cruz que yo truje, porque todo lo
que el dicho fraile se dice que refiere, es lo mismo que los dichos
indios á mí me dijeron; y en haberse en esto adelantado el dicho Fray
Marcos fingiendo y refiriendo lo que no sabe ni vió, no hizo cosa
nueva, porque otras muchas veces lo ha hecho y lo tiene por costumbre
como es notorio en las provincias del Perú y Guatemala, y se dará de
ello informacion bastante luego en esta corte, siendo necesario.”
[39] The request occurs in the earliest letters from the viceroy,
and is repeated in that of December 10, 1537. This privilege was
withdrawn from all governors in the colonies by one of the New Laws
of 1543. (Icazbalceta, Col. Hist. Mexico, ii, 204.) The ill success
of Coronado’s efforts did not weaken Mendoza’s desire to enlarge his
territory, for he begs his agent in Spain, Juan de Aguilar, to secure
for him a fresh grant of the privilege in a later letter. (Pacheco y
Cardenas, Doc. de Indias, vol. iii, p. 506; B. Smith, Florida, p. 7.)
[40] Ulloa’s Relation is translated from Ramusio in Hakluyt, vol.
iii, p. 397, ed. 1600.
[41] Memorial que dió al Rey el Marques del Valle, en Madrid, 25 de
junio, 1540: Printed in Doc. Inéd. España, vol. iv, p. 209. Compare
with this account that in H. H. Bancroft’s Mexico, vol. ii, p. 425.
Mr Bancroft is always a strong advocate of the cause of Cortes.
[42] Oviedo, Historia General, vol. iv, p. 19.
[43] The capitulacion or agreement with De Soto is printed in Pacheco
y Cardenas, Doc. de Indias, vol. xv, pp. 354–363.
[44] These documents fill 108 pages in volume XV of the Pacheco y
Cardenas Documentos de Indias. At least one other document presented
in the case, the Capitulacion . . . que hizo Ayllon, is printed
elsewhere in the same Coleccion. This, also, does not include the two
long memorials which Cortes succeeded in presenting to the King in
person.