Page:Don Coronado through Kansas.djvu/9

vi x^,SV ^-/, ^>. ^/. .vv A^, sv ,v v ^ >, ?A>!, ,SV 4^ I: ^ A PkOPHET. ^ ^ On October 20, 1541, Don Coronado wrote V ^ the King of Spain the following, which now ■> A after 367 years demonstrates his foresight, it |^ J must have been Kansas he describes, for he k i "When I reached it (Quivtra), tt ts m the i f A fortieth degree, (The 40th degree is the north Y^ ^ line of Kansas, and if this line is followed east r ^" it will be found to run through Spain, in Eu- |^ rope), the country itself is the best I ever 'seen' |> for producing all the products of Spain, for ^ besides the land itself being very fat and black K. and being very well watered by riverlets and [^ springs and rivers I found everything they have -y i ' i ^ S' in Spain." W t 'v' '^r VT ^' -^<' -tV vt- vt- Vt- v't- ^ft-f^ ^