The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, July 1918 - April, 1919 Page: 214
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214 The Southweslern Ilistorical Quarterly
for retur mng to civilization was to make their way "forward"
along the coast to the Spanish settlements on the Panuco River.
With this idea the barges were built. After the shipwreck at
Mal-Hado, Figueroa and the other swimmers were sent "for-
ward" toward Panuco to find Christians. Dorantes the following
spring led all who were able to, travel along the coast "toward
Panuco"; and it was along the coast, still "toward Panuco," that
Figueroa and the Asturian endeavored to make their way. It
was along the coast, "toward Panuco," that Cabeza de Vaca pro-
ceeded with Lope de Oviedo, and after the latter turned back
Cabeza de Vaca told Castillo "that he sought a land of Chris-
tians and followed this direction and trail." Castillo and Doran-
tes, who had already been with the Mariames and Iguaces forty
leagues forward "toward Pinuco" to eat tunas,87 told him that
the best way to accomplish their purpose was to remain with the
Mariames on the River of Nuts until the next tuna season, escape
from them in the tuna region and join "other Indians," who came
"from beyond" to. meet the Mariames with bows to, barter and
exchange, when these other Indians "turned back." Eighteen
months later this plan was carried out, and the Spaniards joined
the Avavares, who were, Cabeza de Vaca says, the very Indians
who were accustomed to fetch the bows to barter with the Ma-
87Velasquez defines tuna, as, "the prickly pear or Indian fig, the fig of
the Cactus Opuntia." Cabeza de Vaca, (p. 91), speaking of tunas says,
"When dried they are put in baskets like figs and kept to be eaten on
the way."
Five days after the Spaniards joined the Avavares the latter "Left to
get more tunas at a place where people of a different nation and lan-
guage lived . . . and having traveled five days," says Cabeza de Vaca,
"We came to a river." Here they pitched their tents, and "went out to
hunt for the fruit of certain trees," and Cabeza de Vaca became lost. He
traveled alone for five days stopping each evening "in the timber near the
rivers," at the end of which he met his Indians "on the shores of a river.
Cabeza de Vaca as well as the Indians had thus far "wandered about
famishing" but, on the next day they went to where they found "a great
many tunas." Early the next day many Indians came. When these last
Indians had gone, continues Cabeza de Vaca, "We removed to others that
were eating tunas also, called Cultalchule'hes and Malicones, which speak
a different language, and with them were others called Coayos and Susolas,
and on another side those called Atayos, who were at war with the
Susolas." (Cabeza de Vaca, p. 105.)
At page 124 of Cabeza de Vaca the same tribes are distributed geo-
graphically as follows:
"On the coast live the Quitoles, and in front of them, inland, the
Chauaures. These are joined by the Malicones and the Cultalchulches, and
others called Susolas and Comos. Ahead on the coast 'are the Camolas, and
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