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coast. On the further side of the point of the mountain one sees
the San Lorenzo and the Conchas coming together and flowing
easterly, on the south of the mountain, to the Laguna Madre.
. . . away across the plain, the San Juan River is seen where
Bra.vo now stands. Between it and the river is the plain or Llano
de Flores, extending south to the Conchas.
Judge Coopwood might have added that the mountain which
he calls Pamoranes is an outlying spur of the easternmost ridge
of the Sierra Madres, the Cerralvo mountains, which extend ap-
proximately north and south parallel with the general course
of the Rio Grande. From the mouth of the San Juan River Lt
Laredo these mountains are plainly visible from the left or Texas
bank of the Rio Grande. There is a wide gap between the south-
ern end of the Cerralvo mountains proper and the northern end
of the Pamoranes. This gap is Judge Coopwood's "Llano de
Flores," at the northern edge of which the Rio P esqueria, the
northern branch of the San Juan, flows from Ramones on the
west to Villa los Herreras on the east, "at the foot of the point"
of the Cerralvo mountains, at a distance of forty or fifty miles
from the Rio Grande at Penitas.100
With the aid of this glimpse into the region into which Cabeza
de Vaca and his companions must have gone, if they continued
forward "toward Panuco," or in the direction in which they sup-
posed Panuco to be, after leaving the Avavares, a minute and
careful examination and comparison of the two narratives should
indicate whether or not the forward journey was into the region
in northern Tamaulipas, described above. Where comment seems
unnecessary the two narratives are distinguished merely as
"Oviedo," and "Cabeza de Vaca."
(b) Beginning the Great Journey
OvIEDO:101 The month of August arrived, and these three
gentlemen had collected some deer hides, and were ready and
when the time came, fled secretly and prudently from the Indians
with whom they came to these parts. . . . This same day
that they departed they walked seven leagues to meet with other
Indians, who were friends of those they left behind, and there
they received them well, and gave them of what they had.
00All statements made in this paper with reference to the topography of
northern Tamaulipas are verified from Carta General del Estado de
Tamaulipas Levantada a iniciativa de su actual Governador Co. Pedro
Arguelles por la Comisi6n Geografico-Exploradora, 1908.
zo'Oviedo, III, p. 603.224
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