Los Sobrevivientes de La Florida


personal taxes. In addition, when a person asked the Crown for a
special favor or dispensation, having long family roots in Spain
and Christianity were two valued assets mentioned often by the
petitioner.



 7. Destinations after Florida


 All of the survivors accounted for reached the port of Panuco
in New Spain. Four were sick enough to remain in Panuco instead
of continuing with the rest to Mexico City. Left ailing were Juan
Ruiz, Enriquez, Vicente Martinez, and Arias the Galician. Once
the rest reached Mexico City, some remained there while others
returned to Spain or went on to Peru and other places in the
Spanish Empire. Those whose final destinations are known are
listed in Appendix II. Since several of these resided in more than
one place for significant amounts of time, I have listed both places
to indicate where future research should be conducted. They are
doubly accounted for in the following comment.

 The final destinations of 86 conquerors have been recorded.
Of these, eight have been listed with two destinations. Fifty-nine
stayed in Mexico, 18 went to Peru, 15 returned to Spain, 1 returned
to Cuba and it seems that one went to the New Kingdom of
Granada. Much remains to be learned about the destinations of
other survivors. Consider only what Alonso de Carmona wrote: "I
have already said the we came from Pinuco in squads of fifteen or
twenty soldiers, and in that way we entered the great City of
Mexico... All those of my squad decided to go to pay their respects
to the Viceroy Don Antonio de Mendoza...and he gave orders that
we should not go hence until they clothed us. And after we were
clothed we paid him our respects and departed, thanking him for
the favour and kindness which he had shown us. And we all went
to Peru."160 Besides Carmona's squad, there had to be many more
who followed. Peru continued for some time to be the place for a
conqueror who dreamed of riches.


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