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pleasant towns and villages, where they were taught manufacturing and agriculture. Prosperity followed, and the strong contrast presented between the happy progression under Quiroga and the misery of the few preceding years proclaims his rule a righteous one.[1]

  1. Among his historians there are not wanting those who call his administration 'gobierno de oro, porque no se volvieron á oir los clamores de los indios agraviados, ni el estruendo de las armas de los ciudadanos inquietos, ni la violencia de las vírgenes, ni los robos, ni las muertes lastimosas.' Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, 1. 227.

    The following additional authorities have been consulted for this chapter: Cortés, Escritos Sueltos, 305, 337; Calle, Mem. y Not., 71-6; lib. i. cap. ix.; lib. v. cap. ix.; Puga, Cedulario, 78, 80-4, 112-13, 158-9; Cartas de Indias, 254-5, 859; Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., ii. 210; vi. 498; vi. 193; xiv. 373-84; xvi. 5-39; xxiii. 410-14; Ramirez, Proceso, 231-76; Beaumont, Crón. Mich., iv. 27-472, passim; Id., MS., 283-625, passim; Florida, Col. Doc., 119; Frejes, Hist. Breve, 203; Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série i. tom. ix. 5 passim; Id., tom. x. 250-68; série ii. tom. v. 252; Alaman, Disert., 1. app. 1. 25; Jalisco, Mem. Hist., 34-7, 96; Dic. Univ., passim; Buelna, Compend., 11; Soc. Mex. Geoq., Boletin, vii. 53-6; Parra, Cong. Xal., MS., 242; Peralta, Not. Hist., 380; Zamacois, Hist. Méj., iv. 543-703, passim; v. 7; Comargo, Hist. Tlax., 182-4; cxxxi, 245; Bussiere, L'Empire Mex., 355; Gomara, Hist. Mex., ii. 166-8, 184-7.