American COLONIAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL. EDITED BY ALBERT BUSHNELL HART AND EDWARD CHANNING NO. 13. CORONADO'S JOURNEY TO NEW MEXICO AND THE GREAT PLAINS. PARKER P. SIMMONS SUCCESSOR TO A. LOVELL & CO. 1906 Entered at the New York Post Office as second class matter. COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY A. LOVELL & C' AY Lipl. E173.16 Nos. 3-24 (rson dis ded HISTORY, AND SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE. Handbook of Dates. viii+152 pp. Price.... By HENRY CLINTON BROWN. 12 mo. Cloth. .$1 00 Arranged...phabetically and chronologically, comprising all the important events from the earliest ages to within the present decade. The Honors of the Empire State in the War of the Rebellion. "It is a volume which no loyal son of New York can open without feeling a laudable pride in the great commonwealth which gave him birth. Her splendid services in the great struggle of twenty-five years ago are recorded with commendable accuracy."-New York Sun. Political Economy for American Youth. By J, HARRIS PATTON. 12 mo. Price.... .I 00 It advocates the adoption and maintenance of an economic system suited to American conditions, while at the same time recognizing at their full value commercial and industrial relations with foreign nations. The principles advanced are re-enforced by citations from our national history. The Eight Hours Day. By SIDNEY WEBB and HAROLD COX. 12 mo. viii+280 pp. Paper covers. Price.... The question is discussed in its historical, economic, and social aspects, and contains a bibliography for further research. Civics for Young Americans. By Wм. M. GIFFIN. Large 12 mo. 132 PP. With an illustration. Cloth. Price.. The author shows in a strikingly novel and interesting way, and in language intelligible to a ten-year-old boy, the necessity of government, the different forms of government, and the advantages of our government over all others. Civil Government. By R. E. CLEMENT. 12 mo. 232 PP. Price..... 50 50 Cloth. xiv+ 84 A brief and lucid treatise on the Federal Constitution, and the Colonial, Revolutionary and Confederate Governments which preceded it. English Political Orations from Wentworth to Macaulay. Price.... Great speeches on great themes by famous English statesmen. The selection vers a period from 1576 to 1331. 40 'l booksellers, or sent by mail. postpaid, on receipt of the price. PARKER P. SIMMONS, Successor to A. LOVELL & CO., 3 East 14th Street, NEW YORK. No. 13. JANUARY, 1894. CORONADO'S JOURNEY TO NEW MEXICO AND THE GREAT PLAINS, 1540-42, AS DESCRIBED BY THE FIRST EUROPEAN VISITORS Translated from the Spanish by GEORGE PARKER WINSHIP. The Spanish text of the "Relacion del Suceso," the first of the two accounts translated for this leaflet, is found in Buckingham Smith's Coleccion de documentos para la Historia de la Floridi, and also in volume XIV of the Pacheco v Cardenas collection of Documentos Inéditos del Archivo de Indias. Coronado's letter to Charles V. is printed in Volumes III. and XIII. of the Pacheco y Cardenas collection. In each case the first text is taken from a copy made by Muñoz for his great collection of manuscript material, and the second from a text found in the Archives of the Indies. The two texts differ in both cases. I have tried to give as literal an English version as I could, translating the text as I find it, and trying to give it the sense which it had, so far as I could judge, when first read by the Spaniards three hundred and fifty years ago. Buffalos and pueblos are very distinct conceptions to us, but the Spanish chroniclers write of these as cows and villages. Names are spelt as they are printed. As regards Quibira, we must remember that the Spanish has the sound of v. There is another letter of Coronado written to the Viceroy Don Antonio de Mendoza, which is only preserved in an Italian translation, made by Ramusio. This was translated by Hakluyt, and this translation has been reprinted in one of the Old South Leaflets. Mr. A. F. Bandelier, in his Documentary History of the Tribe of Zuñi, has translated much of the material relating to the pueblo region. The Coronado letters, the narrative of Jaramillo, and the extended narrative of Castañeda, which is the source for many of the details regarding this expedition, were translated, with considerable freedom, by Ternaux Compans, in volume IX. of his Voyages, Relations et Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la découverte de l'Amerique. A translation of this last document from a Spanish text is in preparation. G. P. W. E 173 Ab no.13-1 MAIN |