The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska Page: 223 of 288
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THE JOURNEY OF CORONADO
had made themselves secure within it, and
would not let anyone come near without
shooting arrows at him, and as we could not
obtain anything to eat unless we captured
it, his grace decided to enter the city on foot
and to surround it by men on horseback, so
that the Indians who were inside could not
get away. As he was distinguished among
them all by his gilt arms and a plume on
his headpiece, all the Indians aimed at him,
because he was noticeable among all, and
they knocked him down to the ground twice
by chance stones thrown from the flat roofs,
and stunned him in spite of his headpiece,
and if this had not been so good, I doubt if
he would have come out alive from that en-
terprise, and besides all this-praised be Our
Lord that he came out on his own feet-
they hit him many times with stones on his
head and shoulders and legs, and he received
two small wounds on his face and an arrow
wound in the right foot; but despite all this
his grace is as sound and well as the day he
left that city. And you' may assure my
lord of all this, and also that.on the 19th of
July last he went 4 leagues from this city to
see a rock where they told him that the
Indians of this province had fortified them-
selves,2 and he returned the same day, so that
he went 8 leagues in going and returning.
I think I have given you an account of
'The printed manuscript is V. M., which signifies
Your MIajesty.
Doubtless Thunder mountain.
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Compilation of translated texts describing the explorations of Coronado and his companions as they traveled in Central American and parts of present-day United States, with some supplementary historical notes for context.
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Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952. The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth3161/m1/223/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .