The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, July 1918 - April, 1919 Page: 252
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without irrigation, in the manner indicated in the narratives, were
those who resided near Presidio.
6. The narratives state that the next fifteen or seventeen days'
journey after leaving the first permanent houses was up the river
"Which flows among mountains" on which these houses were sit-
uated, and along its eastern bank.
The river was then crossed and the journey continued to the
westward for seventeen to twenty days more, to a people who lived
near the Pacific Coast. The river "Which flows among moun-
tains," then, was the last large river crossed before reaching the
Pacific slope.
7. The length of the journey up this river, from the first per-
manent houses, approximates the distance from Presidio to the
region of El Paso, where the Florida Plain, which extends west-
ward toward the Pacific slope, approaches the Rio Grande. The
journey "toward sunset" from the river was in part, at least,
across a rather barren plain.
Having located the two ends of this inland journey of more
than two hundred leagues from the "river of Maize" to the "river
of Permanent Houses," it follows that the natural history and
topographical features mentioned in the narratives should be found
in the region between. All of these have been pointed out.
The barren mountains are found on both sides of the middle
Rio Grande. A journey of fifty leagues through this barren and
inhospitable region would take the travelers across the Rio Grande
in the "Big Bend" country, and well into the limestone plateau
beyond. Presidio, near the Rio Grande-Conchas junction, lies
thirty leagues or more to. the west, across a similarly barren and
rather mountainous region.
13. From the River of Permanent Houses to the Maize Region
on the Pacific Slope
(a) Up the River of Permanent Houses
OvEDO :156 With these Indians [who had come to. meet them
from the permanent houses], they departed, and continued their
journey to their houses, which were five or six leagues from there
on that river, where they sowed. But because of the many peo-
ple that they had, and the little and very rough land, it was lit-
tle that they harvested. They took them by that river upward
'5'Oviedo, III, pp. 608-609.252
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