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240 The Southwzestern Historical Quarterly
Prieto notes also,13" that under the names of guages, a species
of gourd or calabash has always been known in Tamaulipas. When
these are dried by the heat of fires, and the seeds and filaments
removed, the shell remains like wood, ready to receive in its
hollow all kinds of liquor.
Velasco,134 in his Geografia y Estadistica de Nuevo Le n, says
that when the Spaniards settled Nuevo Le6n, families of these
white Indians (Borrados) were found where Monterey now stands
and in the surrounding country, and others (Blancos) at Monte
Morelos and Terin.
The lower order of Mexicans, in communities such as Mier,
Roma, Camargo and Rio Grande City, which absorbed tribes of
these "Indios Blancos" are noticeably lighter colored and more
intelligent than the corresponding class of Mexicans elsewhere on
the lower Rio Grande.
11. From the River of Maize to The Beautiful River
(a) Up the River of Maize
CABEZA DE VACA:" The next day we departed, taking many
of them along, the women carrying the water. . . . After
going two leagues we met the men sent out in search of people,
but who, had not found any. . . . The Indians took mourn-
ful leave of us and turned back down the river to their homes,
while we proceeded along the stream upwards. Soon we met two
women carrying loads . . they brought us of what these
contained, which was corn meal, and told us that higher up on
the river we would meet with dwellings, plenty of tunas, and of
that same meal. We . . . walked on until at sunset we
reached a village of about twenty lodges. . . . We traveled
in . . . company [of these last Indians] for three days. They
took us to where there were many Indians [whose] medicine men
gave us two. gourds.
OvIEDO:186 The second day following the Christians departed,
and many people went with them. They had many women, who
carried water for the road. This was scarce among them, and the
weather was very warm. They also carried food . . . after
travelling two leagues, they met the Indians who had gone to
find people. They said they had found none, except very far
from there. The Indians . . . returned . . . weeping,
133Coopwood, TIIE QUARTERLY, III, 179; Prieto, p. 121, Note.
"13See note 132.
1"Cabeza de Vaca, pp. 136-138.
13 Oviedo, III, pp. 605-606.
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