some information regarding it. The special record of the Cardenas
expedition was kept by one Pedro de Sotomayor, but it has apparently
never been seen in modern times. It is probably in the archives of
Spain or Mexico, and its discovery would throw needed light on the
location of Tusayan and the course Cardenas followed.*** The distance
of this whole region from a convenient base of supplies, and its
repellent character, prevented further operations at this period, and
when these explorers traced their disappointed way homeward, the
Colorado was not seen again by white men for over half a century; and
it was more than two hundred years before European eyes again looked
upon the Grand Canyon.

* A las barrancas del rio que puestos a el bado [lado?] de ellas
parecia al otro bordo que auia mas de tres o quatro leguas por el
ayre."--Castaneda, in Winship's monograph. Fourteenth Ann. Rep.
Bureau of Ethnology, p. 429.

** For the author's views on Coronado's route see the Bulletin of the
American Geographical Society, December, 1897. Those views have been
confirmed by later study, the only change being the shifting of
Cibola from the Florida Mountains north-westerly to the region of the
Gila. See map p. 115, Breaking the Wilderness.

*** It may be noted here with reference to the location of Cibola,
Tiguex, Tusayan, etc., that too much heretofore has been ASSUMED. The
explanations presented are often very lame and unsatisfactory when
critically examined. So many writers are now committed to the errors,
on this subject that it will be a hard matter to arrive at the truth.