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The Southwestern Historical Quarterly
nuts are better than those of Castilla because the husks are thin.
When still green they grind them and make balls that are eaten.
When dried, they grind the nuts with the husks and eat them as
meal.
OVIEDO :140 In this manner they went by the skirts of the mount
trains eighty leagues, a little more or less, entering through the
land inland, straight to the north. There they met, at the foot
of the mountain, four ranchos of another nation and tongue, who
said they were there from more inland, and that they went by
that road to, their land. There they gave the Christians a rattle
of copper, and certain shawls (1Mantas) of cotton. They said
that these came from toward the north, across the land toward
the sea of the south. The next day they entered through the
mountains toward the west, and [these Indians] took them to
some ranchos near a beautiful river. . . . When they arrived
there, where they gave them this rattle, they had marched a hun-
dred and fifty leagues, a little more or less., from where they com-
menced to travel.
It may be noted that the narratives here use the expression "in-
land," and "toward the north," interchangeably. As Mr. Bas-
kett has shown, by adding four days travel, or about thirty leagues,
to, Cabeza de Vaca's estimate of fifty leagues for the inland jour-
ney, we have about the eighty leagues, which Oviedo says they
travelled "in this manner," that is from tribe to tribe, without
special incident, from the village at "the foot of the point" of
the first mountains to the village at the foot of the mountain where
they received the copper rattle. Hence the estimates of distances
in the two narratives appear to. be consistent. Deducting this
eighty leagues from the one hundred and fifty leagues which they
had marched since beginning to travel leaves seventy leagues, as
the distance behind the village "at the foot of the point" of the
mountains, a sufficient distance to account for the journey from
the point where they escaped the Mariames.
A journey of thirty leagues up the Pesqueria, from the vicinity
of the San Juan-Pesqueria junction would take the travellers well
into the fertile plateau which lies north and northeast of Mon-
terey,41 between the eastern Sierra Madre and the Cerralvo moun-
14 Oviedo, III, p. 606.
'4W'hen Taylor attacked Monterey in 1846, he transported his army by
steamboat from 1atamoras to Camargo, near the head of navigation on
the San Juan, and from there marched overland to Marfn, on the upper
Pesquerfa, in two columns, one of which took the road via China, up the242
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