Note [128 — Chapter II
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[128] Coronado, in his letter to Mendoza, August 3, 1540, mentions both negroes and Indians in the expedition. He does not allude to their being slaves. In other parts of the letter, he mentions friendly Indians accompanying the expedition. Coronado’s Letter to Mendoza, in the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; Shea, The Catholic Church in Colonial Days, p. 114.