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Spanish Abandonment and Be-Occupation of East Texas. 109
timber used being brought from the forest by the inhabitants.1
When the removal had been made from Adaes the ornaments of the
mission had been placed in charge of the governor. Some of them
were taken to Bucareli early in 1775, and Ybarbo later on asked
for the rest, but part of them, at least, remained in the governor's
hands until after Bucareli had passed out of existence.2
Something more than a year after its beginning, Ripperda was
able to report that Bucareli contained, besides numerous jacales,
twenty houses of hewn wood, grouped round the plaza, a wooden
church, and a guard-house and stocks, the last two items having
been provided at the personal expense of Ybarbo. And in June,
1777, Ybarbo reported that there were at the place more than fifty
houses of hewn wood, corrals, fields, roads cut open, and an im-
proved river crossing.8
The little settlement grew slowly in numbers by the addition of
various odds and ends of humanity. Ybarbo brought some, but
I suspect not all, of the people who had been left at El Lobanillo
and Nacogdoches; some of the Adaesans who had remained at
Bexar followed, as they had intended; an occasional slave, escaped
from Louisiana, drifted into the place; though Ripperda professed
to allow no citizens other than Adaesans to go to Bucareli, he made
exceptions in case of "useless vagabonds" who might be at Bexar;
and finally, French traders flocked into Bucareli from Louisiana.
During the winter of 1776-7 the pueblo was visited by an epidemic
that made an inroad into its population by causing the death of
seventeen persons. Among these, apparently, was lieutenant Gil
Flores. At the same time the near-by Vidais Indian tribe was
'Ripperda to the viceroy, November 15, 1775, in Expediente sobre .
Parroco, 3; Ripperda to the viceroy, January 25, 1776, in Quaderno que
Corresponde, 69; Ripperda to Croix, October 28, 1777, and Ybarbo to Rip-
perdA, June 30, 1777, both in Representacion del Justicia, 2-3.
'Ybarbo to Ripperda, November 23, 1775, and to the viceroy, January
15, 1776, in Expediente sobre . . . Parroco, 3-4; Croix to Cabello,
January 5, 1780, in the B6xar Archives.
'Ripperda to the viceroy, January 25, 1776, in Quaderno que Corre-
sponde, 69-70; Ybarbo to Ripperda, June 30, 1777, in Representacion del
Justicia, 2.
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