History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

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DISCOVERIES OF THE SPANIARDS.
It was not necessary in those days that a country
should be discovered in order to be mapped; even
now we dogmatize most about what we know least.
It is a lonely sea indeed that cannot sport mermaids
and monsters; it were a pity to have so broad an extent
of land without a good wide sheet of water in it;
so the Conibas Regio cum Vicinis Gentibvs shows a
large lake, called Conibas, connecting by a very wide
Map from Magin, 161 1.
river apparently with a northern sea. I give herewith
another map showing a lake large enough to swallow
ities, though comparatively few of them make mention of the adventures
of Captain Cardenas on the Colorado: Bamusio, Viaggi, iii. 359-63; Hah
luyfs Very., iii. 373-9; Mota-Padilht, Conq. N. Gal.', iii. 14, 158-69; Torquemada,
i. 609-10; Herre.ro, dec. vi. lib. ix. cap. xi.-xii.; Beaumont, Hist.
Mich., MS., 407-22, 482-546, 624-5; Oviedo, iv. 19; Villagrd, Hist. N.
Mex., 19 et seq. ; Gomara, Hist. Ind., 272-4; Bernal Diaz, Hid. Verdad.,
235; Benzoin, Hist. Mundo Nuovo, 107; Ribas, Hist. Triumphos, 26—7 ; Venegas,
Not. Cal., i. 167-9; Clarir/ero, Storia Veil., 153; Aleijre, Hint. Comp.
Jesus, i. 233-8; Salmeron, in Doc. Hist. Mex., 3d ser. pt. iv. 7-9; Noticias, in
Id., 671-2; Cavo, Tres Siglos, i. 127-9; Lorenzana, in Cortes, Hist. Mex.,
325. These might be followed by a long list of modern writers, for which I
will refer the reader to Hist. North Mexican States, this series.