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: 271 of 288
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THE JOURNEY OF CORONADO
pearing rivers and streams, which certainly
satisfied me and made me sure that it will
be very fruitful in all sorts of products. In-
deed, there is profit in the cattle ready to the
hand, from the quantity of them, which is
as great as one could imagine. We found a
variety of Castilian prunes which are not all
red, but some of them black and green; the
tree and fruit is certainly like that of Cas-
tile, with a very excellent flavor. Among
the cows we found flax, which springs up
from the earth in clumps apart from one
another, which are noticeable, as the cattle
do not eat it, with their tops and blue
flowers, and very perfect although small,
resembling that of our own Spain (or and
sumach like ours in Spain). There are
grapes along some streams, of a fair flavor,
not to be improved upon.
The houses which these Indians have
were of straw, and most of them round, and
the straw reached down to the ground like a
wall, so that they did not have the sym-
metry or the style of these here; they have
something like a chapel or sentry box out-
side and around these, with an entry, where
the Indians appear seated or reclining. The
Indian Isopete was left here where the cross
was erected, and we took five or six of the
Indians from these villages to lead and guide
us to the flat-roof houses.1 Thus they
brought us back by the same road as far asThe pueblos of the Rio Grande.
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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/m1/271/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .