of California to its head and the
Colorado river for a long distance above its mouth.

All the essential sources with a critical narrative are available in
G. P. Winship's _The Coronado Expedition_ (in the 14th Report of the
United States Bureau of Ethnology, for 1892-1893, Washington, 1896),
except the _Tratado del descubrimiento de las Yndias y su conquesta_
of Juan Suarez de Peralta (written in the last third of the 16th
century, republished at Madrid, 1878). See also especially Justo
Zaragoza, _Noticias historicas de la Nueva Espana_ (Madrid, 1878), the
various writings of A. F. A. Bandelier (q.v.); General J. H. Simpson
in Smithsonian Institution _Report_ (Washington, 1869), with an
excellent map; and Winship for a full bibliography. H. H. Bancroft's
account in his _Pacific States_ (vols. 5, 10, 12) is less
authoritative.

FOOTNOTE:

[1] He was later killed for deception, and confessed that the Pecos
Indians induced him to lure Coronado to destruction.

CORONATION (Lat. _corona_, crown), a solemnity whereby sovereigns are
inaugurated in office. In pre-Christian times in Europe the king or
ruler, upon his election, was raised on a shield, and, standing upon it,
was borne on the shoulders of certain of the chief men of the tribe, or
nation, round the assembled people. This was called the _gyratio_, and
it was usually performed three times. At its conclusion a spear was
placed in the king's hand, and the diadem, a richly wrought band of silk
or linen, which must not be confused with the crown (see CROWN AND
CORONET), was bound round his forehead, as a token of regal authority.
When Europe became Christian, a religious service of benediction was
added to the older form, which, however, was not abandoned. Derived from
the Teutons, the Franks continued the _gyratio_, and Clovis, Sigebert,
Pippin and others were thus elevated to the royal estate. From a
combination of the old custom with the religious service, the later
coronation ceremonies were gradually developed. In the ceremonial
procession of the English king from the Tower to Westminster (first
abandoned at the coronation of James II.), in the subsequent elevation
of the king into what was known as the marble chair in Westminster Hall,
and in the showing of the king of France to the people, as also in the
universal practice of delivering a sceptre to the new ruler, traces, it
is thought, may be detected of the influence o