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 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 Cárdenas on the Colorado: Ramusio, Viaggi, iii. 359–63; Hakluyt's Voy., iii. 373–9; Mota-Padilla, Conq. N. Gal., iii. 14, 158–69; Torquemada, i. 609–10; Herrera, dec. vi. lib. ix. cap. xi.–xii.; Beaumont, Hist. Mich., MS., 407–22, 482–546, 624–5; Oviedo, iv. 19; Villagrá, Hist. N. Mex., 19 et seq.; Gomara, Hist. Ind., 272–4; Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 235; Benzoni, Hist. Mundo Nuovo, 107; Ribas, Hist. Triumphos, 26–7; Venegas, Not. Cal., i. 167–9; Clavigero, Storia Cal., 153; Alegre, Hist. 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 Cortés, 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.
