The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 3, July 1899 - April, 1900 Page: 232
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232 Texas Historical Association Quartery.
leagues, crossing the Mississippi."' 'The first part of Chapter I. of
the Naufragios shows Cabeza de Vaca was aware of the Rio de las
Palmas being the boundary between the province of Panuco and
Florida; and if he had seen Pineda's map or chart of the Gulf coast,
he also knew that it was only one hundred leagues from such bound-
ary to Espiritu Santo Bay. So it may be presumed he referred to
that part of the coast from such boundary as far north and east as
the cows came down to it, applying to it his usual skill in exaggerat-
ing distance. He had traveled along that coast forty or fifty leagues
while peddling, and knew the Indians inland, and they may have
told him how far the cows went south of their territory, possibly
making it far enough to reach Rio de las Palmas; or he might have
received such information from the light colored Indians, those at
the foot of the mountain where he spent two nights, or those of the
twenty houses he found the day he left the latter place.
The next written statement in regard to the range of the buffalo
herds known to the writer is that found in a manuscript, written at
Saltillo in 1792, by the Bachelor Don Pedro Fuentes, then vicar and
ecclesiastical judge of that place. In speaking of the Chichimeca
nations, he says:
"At .a little more than the middle of the sixteenth century of the
Christian era and thirty years or more after the Mexican conquest,
the famous General Don Francisco de Urdifiola, the elder, began to
make war upon this Chichimeca nation, and without ever being re-
pulsed by it, defeated it many times to the north, south, and west,
founding all the towns in those directions. On being driven to this
country, it subsisted upon the abundant game of buffalo, deer, tur-
keys, and other animals found in these lands, and on which many
of the nations north of here support themselves at the present day,
though they are very numerous * * *.
"This nation, what of it had remained after these past battles,
taking refuge in this district of mountain ranges, deemed itself un-
'Memoir of the negotiations between Spain and the United States of
America leading to the treaty of 1819, published in Madrid in 1820, and
reprinted in Mexico in 1826.
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