In The Same Year, 1541, Don Antony De Mendca, Viceroy Of Mexico, Sent An Army Of Spaniards And Indians From Mexico, Under The Command Of Francis Vasquez De Coronado, By Way Of Culiacan, Into The Province Of Sibola, Or Cinaloa, Which Is In Lat.

30 deg.

N.[97]. Coronado endeavoured to treat on friendly terms with the natives, and requested to be furnished with provisions; but received for answer, that they were not accustomed to give any thing to those who came unto their country in a warlike manner. Upon this, the Spaniards assaulted and took the town, to which they gave the name of New Granada, because the general was a native of Granada in Old Spain. The soldiers found themselves much deceived by the reports of the friars who had been in those parts, as already mentioned under the year 1538, who said that the country was rich in gold, silver, and precious stones. Not being willing, therefore, to return empty-handed to Mexico, they went to the town of _Acuco_, where they heard of _Axa_ and _Quivira_, the king of which was reported to worship a golden cross, and the picture of the Queen of Heaven, or the blessed Virgin. In this journey, the Spaniards endured many hardships, but the Indians fled every where before them, and one morning, they found thirty of their horses had died during the night. From _Cicuic_ they went to _Quivira_, a distance of 200 leagues in their estimation, the whole way being in a level country; and they marked their route by means of small hillocks of cow dung, that they might be the better able to find their way back.

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