The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 3, July 1899 - April, 1900 Page: 231
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Route of Cabeza de Vaca.
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tillo and Esquivell going to those Iguaces in on the mainland, leaving
it uncertain whether he actually saw the animals or was relating
what was told him by his companions as to their seeing them before
meeting him. In either case, however, he leaves the impression that
the buffaloes were seen while whoever saw them was with the Iguaces,
who, according to the position he .assigns them,2 must have been be-
tween the Bravo and the Gulf coast further south than where the
town of Corpus Christi is now situated. I-Ie says: "The cows reach
here, and I have seen them three times and eaten of their meat
* * *. They come from toward the north forward through the
country to the coast of Florida, and spread themselves all over the
land more than four hundred leagues,; and on all this road along the
valleys through which they come, the people dwelling along there
descend and live upon them; and they take inland many skins."3
While he does not clearly express whether the cows came from some
place four hundred leagues north of the coast or spread out such dis-
tance over the land along it, yet as he was treating of the coast, it
may be presumed he meant the latter, which is borne out by the skins
being taken inland, or in a direction from the Gulf.
Of course he meant the coast of Florida as then known, and not
as shown on modern maps; for there seems to be a want -of evidence
to -show that the cows ever came down to the Gulf coast at any point
east of the mouth of Trinity river.4 This seems to require something
to show what he meant by the coast of Florida.
The Florida assigned to Panfilo de Narvaez by Charles V. com-
prised all the provinces on the main from Rio .de las Palmas to the
cape of Florida.5 Don Luis de Onis says, in the negotiations preced-
ing the treaty of 1819: "Under the name of Florida was then em-
braced all the country from the Rio de las Palmas, which is the con-
fine of Panuco, to the 48th degree, an extension of more than 600
2Naufragios, Oap. XVIII.
Ibid.
"The writer has met with no, written acocount or tradition of these herds
going through the pine forests to that part of the Gulf coast.
'Naufragios, Cap. 1.
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