CHAPTER XXXIV.
CLOSE OF THE CENTURY.
1589-1600.
Rumored Insurrection — Fears of Velasco, the New Viceroy — Reception — City Improvements — The Chichimecs — The Mines of Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí, and Zacatecas — Founding of Towns — Philip Wants More Money — Velasco's Astute Measure — Conde de Monterey, Viceroy — Futile Efforts to Move the Indian — Race Intermixtures — Nuevo Leon — Occupation of the Northern Country — Governor Carabajal — Review of the Century — Bibliographical — Writers Subsequent to the Conquest — Torquemada among Others.
It was some time during the month of December 1589, that Luis de Velasco, conde de Santiago and son of the second viceroy, cautiously approached the shores of New Spain as its eighth viceroy. First he touched at the port of Tameagua, afraid to proceed at once to San Juan de Ulua on account of rumored disturbances in the country. Either Mexico had been taken by the audiencia of Guadalajara, or Villamanrique had revolted; there were dire and uncertain ebullitions in the land, and it behooved this son of his father to be circumspect. Assured at his first landingplace that the rumors of political troubles which had reached Spain were unfounded, Velasco proceeded to Vera Cruz, and on the 25th of January 1590, he entered the capital.[1]
The city put on its brightest smile of welcome. The new viceroy was no stranger to the inhabitants.
- ↑ 'Torquemada, i. 652, Cavo, Tres Siglos, ii. 219, and others, agree upon this date, while Rivera, Hist. Jalapa, i. 76, gives January 29th; Lorenzana, Viage, in Cortés' Hist. N. Espiñosa, 18; Zamacois, Hist. Méj., v. 198, the 27th; and Vetancurt, Trat. Mex., 11, the 26th.
