[863] Relacion de Dn Luis de Velasco a S. M. Mexico, Sept. 24, 1559. This was written after receiving, on the 9th, the letters sent by Tristan de Luna on the galleon. It is given in B. Smith’s Coleccion, p. 10. See Davila Padilla, Historia de la fundacion de la Provincia de Santiago de México (Madrid, 1596), chaps. lviii.-lix., pp. 231-234. Ichuse in some documents is written Ochuse.
[864] Testimony of Cristóval Velasquez.
[865] Davila Padilla (p. 236) says August 20; but it was evidently September.
[866] Letter of Velasco, Oct. 25, 1559, citing a letter of Tristan de Luna. Said by Montalvan and Velasquez to have been one hundred and fifty men, horse and foot, under Mateo de Sauce, the sergeant-major, and Captain Christopher de Arellano, accompanied by Fathers Annunciation and Salazar (Testimony of Miguel Sanchez Serrano). He remained three months at Ichuse before he heard from Ypacana; and though urged to go there, lingered five or six months more.
[867] Letter of Tristan de Luna to the King, Sept. 24, 1559, in Coleccion de documentos inéditos, xii. 280-283.
[868] Letter of Velasco to Luna, Oct. 25, 1559; Davila Padilla, book i. chap. lxi. pp. 242-244.
[869] Barcia, Ensaio cronológico, pp. 33-34; Davila Padilla, book i. chap. lxii., pp. 245-246.
[870] Ochechiton, like Mississippi, means great river,—from okhina, river; chito, great (Byington’s Choctaw Definer, pp. 79, 97).
[871] Testimony of soldiers.
[872] Davila Padilla, book i. chap. lxiii.-lxvi. pp. 247-265.