The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, July 1918 - April, 1919 Page: 227
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The First Europeans in Texas, 1523-1536
better for baking, and better for digestion.) Following their
road until midday they arrived at two or three ranchos, where
were some Indians who said they had nothing to eat, but that
going forward they believed that by night they would arrive at
some houses where they would give them food. They .
arrived there and found forty or fifty ranchos. There is where
they first began to esteem and reverence these few Christians.
The Indians gave them of what they had to eat, which was noth-
ing more than leaves of tunas, buried, and some tuinas in the
same way, although they were green. They remained there with
those Indians fifteen (lays, to rest somewhat, because they were
weakl and unable to travel. They ate of those leaves of tunas
until they began to ripen, and they were rested and recovered
and gathered more strength. The Indians . . . gave them
all they had with very good will, which they never had found
until that time among . all they had seen and treated
with.
CABEZ A D VACA :109 While on our way it began to rain, and
rained the whole clay. We lost the trail and found ourselves in
a big forest, where we gathered plenty of leaves of tunas, which
we roasted that same night in an oven made by ourselves, and
so much heat did we give them that in the morning they were
fit to be eaten . . . Issuing from the timber we met other
Indian dwellings, where we saw two Indian women who
were frightened at the sight of us. . . . They told us they
were very hungry, and that near by were many of their own
lodges, and they would take us to them. So that night we reached
a site where there were fifty dwellings . and they gave us
of what they had to eat, which were leaves of tunas and green
tunas baked. For the sake of this good treatment, giving us, all
they had . . . we remained with them several days, and
during that time others came from further on. When those were
about to leave we told the first ones that we intended to accom-
ptny them. This made them very sad . . . but we went
and left them in tears at our departure.
After the meeting with these Indians, whom Cabeza de Vaca
calls C(chelndados,"0 there is a distinct change in the tone of
both narratives. Before meeting them the Spaniards, when not
ac(iually enslaved, were at best merely mendicants, begging their
way from tribe to tribe. They had been treated well or ill by
their Inldians, according to the disposition of the people with
whom they chanced to be, but the difference was that between,
0oCaleza de Vaca pp. 115-116.
nOCabeza de Vaca, p. 123.
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