n, and better made.

I send your honour one Oxe-hide, certaine Turqueses, and two earerings
of the same, and fifteene combes of the Indians, and certain tablets
set with these Turqueses, and two small baskets made of wicker,
whereof the Indians haue great store. I send your lordship also two
rolles which the women in these parts are woont to weare on their
heads when they fetch water from their welles, as wee vse to doe in
Spaine. And one of these Indian women with one of these rolles on her
head, will carie a pitcher of water without touching the same with her
hand vp a lather. I send you also a muster of the weapons wherewith
these people are woont to fight, a buckler, a mace, a bowe, and
certaine arrowes, among which are two with points of bones, the like
whereof, as these conquerours say, haue neuer beene seene.

[1] From Coronado's letter to Mendoza, dated August 3, 1540,
Mendoza being Viceroy of Mexico, by whom Coronado had been sent
out. Coronado's expedition was a great disappointment to all
concerned in it, inasmuch as it resulted in failure to find the
fabled "seven cities of Cibola." He had 300 Spaniards with him and
800 Indians. Instead of finding great towns, as promised by Marcos
and others, he discovered only a poor village of 200 people,
situated on a rocky eminence. The expedition, however, in spite of
this failure, remains one of the most important exploring
expeditions ever undertaken in America. Opinions differ as to how
far north Coronado went, some maintaining that he reached a point
north of the boundary line between Kansas and Nebraska. His letter
was printed by Hakluyt in Volume III of his "Voyages," and may be
found in the "Old South Leaflets." Mr. Thwaites says of the
expedition:

"Disappointed, but still hoping to find the country of gold,
Coronado's gallant little army, frequently thinned by death and
desertion, for three years beat up and down the southwestern
wilderness: now thirsting in the deserts, now penned up in
gloomy canons, now crawling over pathless mountains, suffering
the horrors of starvation and of despair, but following this
will-o'-the-wisp with a melancholy perseverance seldom seen in
man save when searching for some mysterious treasure. Coronado
apparently twice crossed the State of Kansas. 'Through mighty
plains and sandy heaths,' says the chronicler