History and government of New Mexico . in the continuation of these discoveries and settle-ments. I shall not be satisfied until I reach the coastsof the North and South seas. Unfortunately for New Mexico his wish was not ambitious men in New Spain were seeking similarhonors. Cristobal Martin (kres-tobal mar-ten) had already(October, 1583) applied to the viceroy for colonizing author-ity. Others followed. Among them was Juan Bautistade Lomas (bow-testa da lomas), early in 1589, whoseextravagant demands included making the members of hisfamily titled nobles, giving them supreme po
History and government of New Mexico . in the continuation of these discoveries and settle-ments. I shall not be satisfied until I reach the coastsof the North and South seas. Unfortunately for New Mexico his wish was not ambitious men in New Spain were seeking similarhonors. Cristobal Martin (kres-tobal mar-ten) had already(October, 1583) applied to the viceroy for colonizing author-ity. Others followed. Among them was Juan Bautistade Lomas (bow-testa da lomas), early in 1589, whoseextravagant demands included making the members of hisfamily titled nobles, giving them supreme power in the newkingdom for six generations, providing them with fortythousand servants, and many other things needless to 40 THE HISTORY OF NEW MEXICO mention. The proposals of all these gentlemen were re-jected. 46. Castano de Sosa, 1590-1591. — While the govern-ment was dallying with propositions for settlements, GasparCastano de Sosa (gas-par kas-tanyo da sosa), captaingeneral of New Leon da-on), made a bold dash for the honor 71. Basket Dance, San Ildefonso of colonizing New Mexico. Relying on the provision ofthe Laws of Settlement of 1573, which permitted officers tomake settlements in regions already discovered, providedthey gave prompt notice of their action, he sent word tothe viceroy and immediately started for the north, July27, 1590. From his mining camp at New Almaden (al-ma-than), now Monclova (mon-klova), he made his wayto the Rio Grande and up the Pecos, which he called theRio Salado (sa-latho), or Salt River, to Cicuye. With EXPLORATION AND CONQUEST 41 him were a hundred and seventy persons, including womenand children. He also had a wagon train of supplies andimplements. From Cicuye he went over to San Ildefonso (el-da-fonso),Santa Clara, San Juan, and Taos, then back down the riverby Santo Domingo (santo do-mengo) and Tiguex to Isleta(es-lata), below Albuquerque (al-boo-kerka). In themeantime a company of fifty soldiers had come up the RioGrande to arrest him
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