The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, July 1918 - April, 1919 Page: 231
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The First Europeans in Texas, 1528-1536
previously had been. Some Susolas had befriended Cabeza de
Vaca, and had been befriended by him at the time when he escaped
from the Quevenes to the Mariames at the River of Nuts.115 The
Cultalchulches and Malicones also befriended the Spaniards and
were befriended by them while the latter were with the Avavares.
Thle Coayos are mentioned only as one of the tribes eating tunas
late in the season; the Comes only in the list of tribes. Probably
they were the same people, andi identical with the Como Se Llamas,
or Comecrudos, of later times.
The Quitoles are not mentioned, except in this list.' The "peo-
ple of the figs" are not mentioned elsewhere, but the Spaniards
were told by the Avavares that "They had seen Figueroa. and the
Asturian, with other Indians, further along on the coast which we
had named of the figs." No explanation is macle as to why either
the coastl- o the Indlians were so named.n6 The Cuchiendaclos were
evidently the people "who first begaan to reverence the Christians."
The implication from both narratives is that all the tribes en-
countered after leaving the Anagados spoke dialects of the same
language, and no complete change of language is indicated until
they encountered a Ileople "from afar" a hundred leagues or more
further on their journey.
This retrospective d iscussion is inserted here for the purpose of
showing that the Avavares and their neighbors were of Coahuil-
teean linguistic stock. The Indians that are collectively called
Coahuiltecan by modern commentators were a, numerous group of
very small tribes, which dwelt on both sides of the lower Rio Grande.
Beolton'17 has identified more than seventy tribes and sub-tribes of
this group that dwelt between the coast and the Camino Real lead-
ing from San Antonio to Mission San Juan Bautista in Coahuila,
below the modern Eagle Pass. The neophytes at both these mis-
sions were largely from this group of tribes. Pimentel says their
language was the one most in use between Candela and the San
Antonio River." Representative tribes of this group who dwelt
near the lower Rio Crande were the Cotonamnes," 1 survivors of
whom were found by Gatsehet in Southern Hidalgo County in
n"Ibid., 79-106.
"'Ibid., 110.
"'BoRon, A tlhanase de ilzibrecs, I, 27.
11(nd(lbool of American Indians, I, p. 314.
I'Ibid., I, 352.231
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