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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
ed by parties from the army for twenty leagues above the river Jemez, and for an uncertain distance below El Paso, the general, after his return to Tiguex, on the twentieth of October, 1541, reported to Charles the Fifth, that Chap. II.} 1541. poor as were the villages on the Del Norte, nothing better had been found, and that the region was not fit to be colonized. Persuaded that no discoveries could be made of lands rich in gold or thickly enough settled to be worth dividing as estates, Coronado, in 1542, 1542. with the hearty concurrence of his officers, returned to New Spain. His failure to find a Northern Peru threw him out of favor; yet what could have more deserved applause than the courage and skill of the men who so thoroughly examined the country north of Sonora, from Kanzas on the one side to the chasm of the Colorado on the other, and portrayed it so accurately, that succeeding travellers verify their description! The expedition from Mexico had not yet been be- 1537