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"Ladies shouldn't be dragged into such hardships." Thurstane wanted to say that he was not responsible for the journey; but he would not, because it did not seem manly to shift all the blame upon Coronado. "I am very, very sorry," was his reply. "It is a frightful journey." "Oh, frightful, frightful!" sighed Aunt Maria, twisting her aching back. "But it will soon be over," added the officer.
In order to shed what light is possible on this question, I have examined the account by Castañeda, the letter of Coronado to Mendoza, and the description in the "Relacion del Suceso," but find it difficult to determine that point definitely.
Coronado proceeded eastward to about the western line of Missouri, and, finding colonisation anywhere in the regions visited out of the question, he returned in 1542 to Mexico, with his entire army excepting a couple of padres.
At sight of this friendly work Coronado drew a fresh breath of courage, and executed his greatest feat yet of horsemanship and swordsmanship. Spurring after and then past one of the wheeling braves, he swept his sabre across the fellow's bare throat with a drawing stroke, and half detached the scowling, furious, frightened head from the body.
Wilbur told him as much of his story as was necessary, but from the captain's talk he gathered that the news of his return had long since been wired from Coronado, and that it would be impossible to avoid a nine days' notoriety. It was he who offered the only plausible solution of the mystery of the lifting and shaking of the schooner and the wrecking of the junk.
She immediately broke into screams, which ended in convulsions and a long fit of insensibility. "It is killing her," wailed Aunt Maria. "Oh, my child! my child!" Coronado spurred at full speed for a mile, muttering to the desert, "Let it kill her! let it!" At last he halted for the train to overtake him, glanced anxiously at Clara's wagon, saw that Mrs.
Back to Coronado he went with his story, a disappointing one, since he had seen nothing of either gold, silver, or precious stones, the nearest approach to treasure being the greenish turquoise. The story of the negro pioneer, as afterwards learned, was one that might have fitted the Orient.
Opportunely for the viceroy, Fra Marcos discovered New Mexico and Arizona. Gathering the doughty swordsmen together, Mendoza turned them over to the brilliant soldier and explorer, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, with strict orders to get them as far from the viceroy as he could, and then lose them. Coronado and his band were the first to see the Grand Canon of the Colorado.
Our girls are those pretty, reliant, well-dressed young women whom you see at the summer resorts from Coronado Beach to Buzzard's Bay. In the fall and winter these girls fill the colleges of the East and the State universities of the West.
After a minute of anxious thought, he asked, "How much do you think she will give me?" "I will ask her." "Not her," returned Garcia petulantly. "Are you a pig, an ass, a fool? Ask the old one the duenna. It ought to be a great deal; it ought to be half and more." To satisfy the old man as well as himself, Coronado sounded Mrs. Stanley as to the proposed division.
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