The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, July 1918 - April, 1919 Page: 244
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The Southwestern Historical Quarterly
12. From the Beautiful River to the Permanent Houses
(a) The Valleys, the Big River, and the Plains Beyond
CABEZA DE VACA:142 After leaving these people we traveled
among so many different tribes and languages that nobody's mem-
ory can recall them all.'14 . . . The number of our compan-
ions became so large that we could no longer control them. Going
through these valleys each Indian carried a club three palms in
length. They all moved in a front, and whenever a hare (of
which there are many), jumped up they closed in upon the game,
and rained such blows upon it that it was amazing to see
when at night we camped . . . each one [of the four] of us
had eight or ten loads. Those of the Indians who carried bows
would not take part, but went to the mountains after deer, and
when at night they came back it was with five or six deer for each
one of us, with birds, quail, and other game . . the women
brought many mats with which they built us houses.
While traveling with those we crossed a big river coming from
the north, and traversing about thirty leagues of plains, met a
number of people that came from afar to meet us on the trail.
OVIEDO :114 And from these ranchos where they gave them these
things, they carried the Christians to five groups or congregations
of ranch os, of more than two thousand souls, who, on all the road
never left them. They killed by the road many jack rabbits and
deer . . . in these ranchos, to which they took them, were
many people of good disposition, and there they gave them very
great quantities of Piiiones (Pine nuts), [which were] very good,
better than those of Castilla, because they have a shell of a kind
" 4Cabeza de Vaca, pp. 142-144.
141A hint as to these "many different tribes and languages" is found in
Judge Coopwood's paper (THE QUARTERLY, III, 239-240), following
Velasco, Geografia y Estadistica (Vol. "Coahuila," pp. 9-10). "At the
arrival of the Spaniards there lived in the prairies and on the Cordilleras
to the west of the Bravo, the Toboso Indians, to the north the Iritiles.
The Coahuiltecas lived in the eastern part of the state, as did the
Cuachichiles, tribes which have disappeared." After filling nearly three
pages with names of tribes living in Coahuila, says Judge Coopwood,
Velasco continues: "In addition to all these tribes which form the
Texano-Coahuiltecan family, whose tongue is very much like, the Mexican,
there existed, according to the letter of the Viceroy, Conde de Revil-
lagigedo, in reference to the supposed missions, the tribes of the Babeles,
Queiquisales, Pinancas, Baquames, Isipopolames, Pies de Venado, Chacapes,
Payaques, Gicocoges, Gorcias, Borcoras, Escaos, Cocobitas, Codames, Tas-
mamaves, Filifaes, Junaces, Toamares, Bapancorapinacas, Babosarigames,
Paseos, Mescales, Xarames, ChacaqualQs, Hijames, Ter-ocodames and Cayi-
lanes." To this formidable array Judge Coopwood adds the names of
twelve other tribes from Mota Padilla, and twenty-two from Memorias a
Nueva Espania, Vol. XXXI, folio, Archivo General, Mexico.
.4Oviedo, III, p. 600.244
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