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south, and to the Rio Grande. They found on these lands another
nation of Indians, called "Little Faces" (Caras Chiquit s)" and
among them they found a sick woman, who asked for the water
of baptism, which was administered, to the satisfaction of the other
Indians.
The trees marked in the course of the survey were mesquite and
ebonies. Because of the thick brush and woods on the western
boundary that line was not surveyed. The appraisers who had
accompanied the surveying and inspecting parties found the land
to be entirely unfit for farming, since in winter it was entirely
sterile, and could not be irrigated, and by reason of this, and the
further fact that the land was full of "impenetrable thorny thick-
ets," and was inhabited only by "Indian enemies," they fixed its
valuation at twelve reales ($1.50) per league, for land suitable for
"large cattle," and five reales (62 cents) per league, for land
suitable for "small cattle."
In the summer of 1794 Vicente Hinojosa, a son of the original
grantee of the Llano, Grande, denounced thirty-five square leagues
of land north of and adjoining the Llano, Grande and La Feria
grants, the land denounced being since known as "Las Mestefias
y Petitas y La Abra"; and Juan Jos6 Balli denounced .seventy-two
leagues, adjoining and lying to the north and west of the lands
denounced by Vicente ITinojosa, known as San Salvador del Tule.
The two grants have separate titles and independent testimonios,
but were inspected and surveyed at the same time. The total
depth of the two grants from north to south is more than thirteen
leagues; their total width on the south boundary line is seventeen
and one-half leagues (eight leagues of this is an extension eight
leagues long and one league wide from the main body of Las
Mestefias grant eastward to, the Arroyo Colorado), and at the north
boundary line six and one-half leagues. The eastward extension
of the Mestefias grant is called Ojo de Agua, from a large spring
of fine water near the Arroyo. Colorado.
The lands denounced by Vicente I-inojosa were inspected on
August 18, 1794.9 The inspecting party found near the north
9"Probably Casas Chiquitas, and hence "Little Houses," instead of "Little
Faces." The former were a well known tribe of Coahuiltecan Indians.
See Handbook of American Indians, I, 315.
"Testimonio proceedings in favor of Vicente Hinojosa. One of the trip-
licate originals is to be found among the archives of the municipality 'of220
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