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The First Europeans in Texas, 1528-1536
of the tunas, though each of these Christians was separated from
the others, each of them resolutely went forward, and unex-
pectedly arrived at a place inland, in a certain part where they
were accustomed to eat the tunas, but the Indians had not gone
there on this occasion.7
Cabeza de Vaca adds other details:78
When the time for the tunas came we found each other again
on the same spot. We had already agreed to escape and ap-
pointed a day for it, when on that very day the Indians separated
us, sending each one to a different place, and I told my com-
panions that I would wait for them at the tunas until full moon.
It was the first of September and the first day of the new moon.
S. . We parted, each one going off with his Indians.
Oviedo details the further adventures of Dorantes, Castillo, and
the negro, pending their escape; Cabeza de Vaca is explicit only
as to his own. The former says:
Dorantes, the first, went there [to the place inland where they
were accustomed to, eat tunas] and chanced to find an Indian
people who had come there that same day; who were great ene-
mies of the others with whom the Christians had been, and they
received him very well. At the end of three or four days the
negro . . . and Castillo, who were together, arrived, and they
agreed to seek for Cabeza de Vaca, who was waiting further on.
They saw' some smoke columns in the distance, and arranged
that Dorantes and the negro should go to this smoke, and that
Castillo should remain there to assure the Indians, . . say-
ing they believed it was their other companion who was making
this smoke, and that they would bring him to their company.
They went thus and searched well, going about until
night, when they met with an Indian who took them to where
Cabeza de Vaca was. He told them how he had come to seek
them. And it pleased God that those Indians moved next day
near to where Castillo had remained, and there they joined
again.79
Cabeza de Vaca says:"
I remained with [my Indians] until the thirteenth of the moon,
determined to escape to other Indians, as soon as the moon would
be full, and on that day there came to where I was Andres
770viedo, III, p. 602.
7sCabeza de Vaca, 95-96.
9"Oviedo, III, p. 602.
"Cabeza de Vaca, 96.207
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