The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 4, July 1900 - April, 1901 Page: 32
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32 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
not recognize the story if told to him by one speaking his mother
tongue. But it is not to be presumed that any one would deem such
a story sufficient to affect the route of Cabeza de Vaca as above pre-
sented, or to negative a single natural object pointed out as one
called for in Naufragios.
Now, the fact is fairly shown that the people where Cabeza de
Vaca says they, were given buffalo skins might have had them in
1536, and that the great preponderance of evidence drawn from
natural objects pointed out along the route both aids and corrob-
orates the probability that the proper places are indicated. And it
is believed that the exaggerations -of time and distance in the Nau-
fragios are shown with sufficient certainty to, repel the idea of their
proving a route thousands of leagues longer than the one here
ado.pted.
As to whether the facts support the statement that Cabeza de Vaca
went to Culiacan and there found Melchor Diaz acting as alcalde
mayor and captain of the province, all said on this subject is sub-
mitted to the impartial judgment of the reader, with the sugges-
tion that the main hypothesis in the statement is that of Diaz's then
occupying such positions, and if this is sufficiently shown to be un-
true, then the statement falls to the ground, and the wanderers did
not go there.
While the statements quoted from Castafieda and Jaramillo
amount to two isolated and discordant assertions as to Cabeza de
Vaca's having gone so far north, what is said in refutation of the
idea, is but to strengthen the position that the route adopted in this
paper is, in the ,main, the only one deducible from all said in Nau-
fragios, without further reflection as to the acts or motives which
influenced the latter part of Cabeza de Vaca's relation.
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