. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres . that having good assistance, they hope that those peoplewill become Christians. The Countrey is very good andfruitfuU, and hath great store of good and wholesomewaters. A Letter of Francis Vazquez de Coronado,Governour of Nueva Galicia, to the lordDon Antonio de Mendo^a, Viceroy ofNueva Espanna. Dated in Saint Michael ofCuliacan the 8. of March, 1539. Of the hard passage from
. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres . that having good assistance, they hope that those peoplewill become Christians. The Countrey is very good andfruitfuU, and hath great store of good and wholesomewaters. A Letter of Francis Vazquez de Coronado,Governour of Nueva Galicia, to the lordDon Antonio de Mendo^a, Viceroy ofNueva Espanna. Dated in Saint Michael ofCuliacan the 8. of March, 1539. Of the hard passage from Saint Michael of Culiacan toTopira. The description of that Province, and ofanother neere unto the same, very rich in gold andprecious stones. The number of the people whichVazquez caried with him in his journey thither ; andhow greatly Frier Marcus of Ni9a is honoured by theIndians of Petatlan. m Y the helpe of God I meane to set forwardfrom this City of S. Michael of Culiacantoward Topira the 10. of April : neithercan I any sooner set forward, because thepowder and match which your Lordshipsendeth mee, cannot be brought thitherbefore that time, and I thinke it be nowCompostella. Besides this, I am to passe many. leagues over mightie high mountaines, which reach up tothe skyes, and over a River, which at this present is sobigge and swolne, that it can in no place be waded over. 118 VASQUEZ DE CORONADO ad. 1539-And if I depart at the time aforesayde, they say wee maywade over it. They tolde mee that from hence to Topirawas not above 50. leagues ; and I have learned since thatit is above foure score leagues. I doe not remember thatI have written to your Lordshippe the information whichI have of Topira : and though I had written thereof unto , yet because that since that time I have learned some-thing more, I thinke it meete to signifie the same untoyour Lordship in these my letters. It may please yourhonour therefore to understand, that they tell mee, thatTopira is a
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