[1430] Coronado’s relation as given in English in Hakluyt, Collection of Voyages, etc., iii. 453 (reprint, London, 1810).
[1431] Tusayan can be clearly identified as the site of the present Moqui villages. Bandelier, Historical Introduction, p. 15.
[1432] It is plain that this river was the Colorado; the description of the Grand Cañon cannot fail to be recognized. Bandelier, Historical Introduction, p. 15. The name by which it was called was the Tizon, the Spanish word for “fire-brand,” which the natives dwelling upon its banks were reported to be in the habit of carrying upon their winter journeyings. Castañeda, p. 50.
[1433] Castañeda, Relation, p. 48; Ibid., p. 46, “Middle of October.”
[1434] Davis (Spanish Conquest, p. 160) suggests that he should have written “northwest.” The anonymous Relacion (Pacheco’s Documentos Inéditos, tom. xiv. p. 321) states that he travelled “westward.”
[1435] [See ante, p. 443, in the section of “Discoveries on the Pacific Coast.”—Ed.]
[1436] The identity of Acuco with the modern pueblo of Acoma is perfectly established. See the plates and description in Lieutenant Abert’s report, Senate Executive Documents, no. 41, 30th Congress, 1st Session, p. 470. Jaramillo is evidently wrong in naming this place Tutahaco, p. 370. Hernando d’Alvarado in his Report calls it Coco.
[1437] Davis (The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico, p. 185, note) places Tiguex on the banks of the Rio Puerco; and General Simpson (Coronado’s March, p. 335), on the Rio Grande, below the Puerco. But Mr. Bandelier (Historical Introduction, pp. 20-22), from documentary evidence, places it higher up the Rio Grande, in the vicinity of Bernalillo; corresponding perfectly with the “central point” which Castañeda declared it to be (p. 182).
[1438] Alvarado’s report of this expedition can be found in Buckingham Smith’s Coleccion de documentos, p. 65; Pacheco’s Documentos Inéditos, tom. iii. p. 511. He says, “Partimos de Granada veinte y nueve de Agosto de 40, la via de Coco.”
[1439] General J. H. Simpson, Coronado’s March, p. 335, has identified Cicuyé with Old Pecos. Additional arguments in support of this opinion may be found in Bandelier’s Visit to the Aboriginal Ruins in the Valley of Pecos, p. 113.