CORONADO

Frey Marcos de Nizza, ”Relación …,” trans. Fanny Bandelier, The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his Companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536,” (New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1905), p. 203:

I FRIER MARCO DE NICA of the order of St. Francis, for the execution of the instruction of the right honourable lord Don Antonio de Mendoza, Viceroy and captain General for the Emperor Majesty in New Spain, departed from the town of St. Michael in the province of Culiacan on Friday the 7th of March, in the year 1539, having for my companion Frier Honoratus, and carrying with me Stephan a Negro, belonging to Andrew Dorantez, and certain of those Indians which the said lord Viceroy had made free, and bought for this purpose: whom Frances Vazquez de Coronado governour of Nueva Galicia delivered me, and with many other Indians of Petatlan.…

¡ Ándale Esteban !

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