The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 43, July 1939 - April, 1940 Page: 441
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Juan de Ugalde and Picax-Ande Ins-tinsle
hard ones since the distance could not have actually been much
more than that number of miles.
Marching for seven days "downstream in search of other rivers,
buffalo, and the Lipiyan chieftain," they came to a well-watered
country abounding in buffalo. On the second day after reaching
this region (June 26), while engaged in killing buffalo, three
mounted Indian messengers were escorted to the tent of Ugalde
after being disarmed by the sentries.
They bore a message from the great Lipiyin chieftain, Picax-
ande Ins-tinsle. The great Lipiyan desired peace with the Spanish
army, the Comanches providing all the warfare he could con-
veniently handle; wherefore, the messengers explained, he had
gone south among his Lipain kinsmen, who had informed him
that Ugalde was not expected back from the campaign for sev-
eral months. Returning to his own lands, he had heard the har-
rowing tales told by refugees from the rancherias attacked by the
Spaniards. Locating the baggage train and reserves in their
encampment along the Puerco, Picax-ande had immediately ridden
in to confer with the officer in charge, only to be met with the
startling news that the comandante was even then pushing north-
ward with the intention of destroying his rancherias.
Upon the refusal of the commander of the camp to treat with
him in any fashion, the old chieftain immediately sent out groups
of messengers and at the same time forwarded instructions to
all his people that under no conditions were they to fire on the
Spaniards. Hie was remaining in the vicinity of the Puerco for
a conference with the "Great Captain of Coahuila."
Ugalde received the messengers with courtesy, was favorably
impressed by their attitude, restored their arms, and held ex-
tended conversations with them that evening. The next morn-
ing the march was slowly resumed, the direction being toward
the south and the Rio Puerco. An hour before noon the force
arrived at "the headwaters of an arroyo with running water in
it, close to the so-called Lomeria del Fierro." Upon finding more
buffalo the Spaniards stopped to hunt, and the three Lipiyanes,
or Llaneros, set out with a message for Picax-ande.
Resuming march in the afternoon the expedition "went 11
leagues, mostly in a southern direction, and a little to the west,
through a flat country with abundant grazing, groves of mesquite,441
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