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Rh chieftains, and of Spanish leaders and their individual achievements. For most of the events of this rebellion we are indebted to the three early chroniclers, Tello, ''List. N. Gal., 362-438; Mota Padilla, Cong. N. Gal., 111-54, and Beaumont, Crón. Mich''., iv. 59-66, 235-9, 386-421; MS. 300-3, 422-8, 550-80. Herrera, dec. vii. lib. ii. cap. xii., lib. v. cap. ii., also speaks of these events at some length. From these authorities Navarrete, ''Hist. Jai., 64-85, Frejes, Hist. Breve, 78-97, and Bustamante, in Gomara, Hist. Mex''. (ed. 1826), 11. supl., 1-38, have prepared somewhat extended sketches. Original documents on the subject are few. The Relacion de la Jornada que hizo Don Francisco de Sandoval Acazitli, in Icazbalceta, Col. Doc., ii. 307-32, was written by Gabriel Castaneda at the order of Acazitli, a native chieftain who with his subjects accompanied Mendoza. It is a diary purporting to record the events of the march from day to day; however, it throws but little light on the subject, even in respect to dates, its statements being contradictory among themselves. The Mendoza, Visita, in Id., 102-18, contains what may be regarded as Mendoza's statements about many points, especially the treatment of Indian captives and auxiliaries. A Peticion Contra Mendoza, in Id., 63-4, gives Cortés' views of the causes which led to the revolt. The Carta de Gerónimo López al Emperador, Oct. 20, 1541, in Id., 141-54, speaks of Mendoza's start and of the evidence of intended revolt near Mexico. The Requerimiento made to the rebels by the friars sent out by the viceroy, is given in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., iii. 369-77. Other references are, Oviedo, iv. 26; Torquemada, iii. 604-9; ''Benzoni, Hist. Mondo Nvovo, 106-7; Salazar y Olarte, Hist. Cong. Mex., 453-7; Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 236; Ramirez, Proceso'', pp. xix. — xxiii., 278-82; Cavo, Tres Siglos, i. 132-3, 136; Gil, in ''Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin'', viii. 478; Hernandez y Dávalos, in Id., 2da ép. ii. 481-2, iii. 188; ''Dicc. Univ., i. 173-4; x. 1039; West-und Ost-Indischer Lusigart, i. 391-2; Gottfriedt, Newe Welt, 285-6; Burney's Hist. Discov. South Sea, i. 220; Garcilaso de la Vega, Comentarios Reales'', ii. 80-1. ''Monumentos Domin. Esp''., MS., 242-3. ''Parra, Cong. Xalisco'', MS., 433-47, written in verse, is correct in some parts as to dates and events; but as for the poetry, the less said of it the better.

The threatened perils of a general uprising of the American nations having thus been averted, the viceroy was again at liberty to turn his attention northward. Coronado had abandoned the conquest of Cíbola and Quivira, and was returning homeward with the remnants of his army. By the voyages of Ulloa and Alarcon the gulf coasts had been explored, and California proved to be a peninsula. Such results had evidently done much to cool Mendoza's ardor for northern enterprise. Yet, he had a fleet on his hands, and one route for exploration still remained open — the continuation of that followed by Ulloa, up the outer coast beyond Cedros Island. Two vessels of Alvarado's former fleet, the San Salvador and Victoria, were made ready and despatched June 27, 1542, under the