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297 THREE TOWNS CALUSD CXJBONADO. ^7 Joan <le Burgas, apparently one of Hiose who forfeited their land because he persisted in the unmarried state. Iliis likewise received the royal approval. It is stated that the number of Indians held to service on these estates was very excessive. Then dp you blame the man for being anxious to return to his beautiful young wife? So everything is pushed to get started to the city of the Twenty-four, a distance of about sLsty-five miles, and about noon the third day they areotf. Now we are under the head of Coronado, it is well to ask, Will his name go down to posterity? There is not a county in Quivira named after him, and the ga^eteers of Kansas give no city, town or village, and there are only three towns given in the United States directory: Opronado, SanDiego county, California, about 2,000 inhabitants; a village in Volusta county, Florida, and a railroad town in Graham county, Ari- xma. While looking through "0," it was observed that the number of towns named after the discoverer of America were 102. General J. H. Simpson, U. S. A., who is the au- thority for conducting the party to the Pawnees in Nebraska, also states that they must have gone through Brown and Doniphan counties, so on tho strength of such an authority our party is now mean- dering dovra. the Nemaha river in Nebraska, keeping southeast along the stream for about thirty miles until they reached the mouth of Walnut creek, a few miles east of where Falls City is built, thence up Wal- nut creek until near Hiawatha, where' they left the creek and crossed the divide to Wolf river. Here