科罗纳多CORONADO

科罗纳多远征队在西波拉，需要补给品，于是在1540年11月下旬，科罗纳多派遣梅尔班·迪亚兹和他的部队试图寻找阿拉尔孔的船只。(在志愿参加这次探险以前，迪亚斯一直是库利亚坎的市长，因此受到了德瓦卡和其他去佛罗里达的纳尔韦兹探险队的幸存者们的欢迎。)他和他的部队沿着霍伊库的足迹回到了科罗拉多河的这个地方。遇到河流以后，他们顺流而下。迪亚斯(科罗纳多士兵卡斯塔涅达是这么说的)
With the Coronado expedition at Cibola and in need of supplies, Coronado, in late November 1540, dispatched Melchoir Diaz and his troops to attempt to locate Alarcón’s ships. (Díaz had been alcalde mayor of Culiacán until volunteering for the expedition, and as such had welcomed deVaca and the other survivors of Narvez’ expedition to Florida.) He and his troops retraced their footsteps from Hawikuh to this point on the Colorado River. Heading downstream from where he encountered the river. Díaz (as reported by Coronado’s soldier Castañeda)

佩德罗•德•卡斯塔涅达，“西波拉日志......”纳西拉， ~1562年，乔治·帕克·温希普译，《科罗纳多远征1540-1542》(华盛顿:美国民族学局，1896年)，第486页:
Pedro de Castañeda, “Relación de la jornada de Cíbola … ,” Nacera, ~1562, trans. George Parker Winship, The Coronado Expedition 1540-1542, (Washington: Bureau of American Ethnology, 1896), p. 486:

“…...到达了船只所能到达的地方，从海湾的源头往上航行了超过十五里格，”大约是从海湾到尤马的一半。在那里，迪亚斯发现了一棵树上，树上刻着这些信息:“阿拉尔孔远道而来，这棵树的下面有信件”。
“…reached the place to which the ships had come, which was more than fifteen leagues up the river from the head of the bay,” approximately halfway from the Gulf to Yuma. There, Díaz found the message carved on a tree: “Alarcón came this far. There are letters at the foot of this tree.”

在这次突袭中，这个部队中的25人西班牙骑士和印第安人盟友步兵，引起了当地尤马印第安人的警觉，随后发生了小规模冲突。虽然迪亚斯逃过了这次劫难，也逃过了沿卡米诺·德尔·迪亚波罗沙漠小径(“魔鬼公路”)向西行进时的劫难，但是他还是没能在河边的一次骑马事故中幸存下来，死在了返回就医的途中，并于1541年1月8日被埋在魔鬼公路的某个地方。
During this foray, the party’s band of 25 mounted Spaniards and Indian allies on foot alarmed the local Yuman Indians, and a skirmish ensued. Though he survived this as well as the westward march along the Camino del Diablo desert trail (the “Devil’s Highway”), Diáz could not survive a horse-riding accident near the River, and was buried somewhere along the Devil’s Highway 1/8/1541 in a hasty return to get him to a doctor.

● 科罗拉多河州立历史公园，位于尤马，向游客展示了这条河在过去的可航行时期、现在以及未来的情况。
● Colorado River State Historic Park in Yuma presents visitors with a snapshot of the navigable old days, the present, and mulls what’s next.

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