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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
At the Trinity, which was reached on July 9, friendly
Rancheria Grande Indians offered the Spaniards the use of a
raft in crossing the river, but it proved to be ineffectual, as
did one which the Spaniards built. About a league from the
river, however, the Spaniards chanced to discover a canoe that
had been left there by Captain Ram6n when he withdrew from
East Texas to San Antonio in 1719. It required four days to
haul this canoe with oxen to the river, but with it the expe-
dition was able to cross the river in twelve days-some days
as many as twenty-five crossings being made."
At the first encampment after crossing the Trinity the Mar-
quis had an interview with the principal captain-governor of
the Texas Indians. "Such were his demonstrations of pleasure,"
at having the Spaniards return, says the Marquis, "that with
the padres he wept from joy."''
Three days' journey farther on, a Frenchman reached the
Spanish camp. He had been sent by Captain Louis de St. Denis
from the mission of La Concepci6n to request of the Marquis
a safe-conduct for coming and discussing matters of interest
to the two crowns. The Marquis granted this safe-conduct
because St. Denis was represented as "commandant of French
forces in Natchitoches and on the entire frontier of all that
the French possess." The Marquis advanced to meet St. Denis,
but on account of high water he was delayed eight days in
crossing the Neches River. It was finally necessary to construct
a bridge thirty-two varas long and four varas wide to accom-
plish the crossing. There with all his captains the Marquis
received St. Denis, who informed the Marquis that a truce had
been declared in Europe and that he had orders from the
French governor of Louisiana to observe it in case the Marquis
wished to do so. St. Denis volunteered the further statement
that the French invasions of the Spanish settlements two years
earlier had been the "personal action" of the French captain
at Natchitoches, who had so far exceeded his instructions that
the French governor at Mobile, in a junta de guerra, had
declared him to be delinquent, and that he would have been
2The Marquis of San Miguel de Aguayo to the Viceroy [Nuestra Sefiora
de Guadalupe, August 19, 1721], in A. G. I., Audiencia de Mexico, 61-2-2,
folio 3; Buckley, "Aguayo Expedition," Quarterly of the Texas State
Historical Association, XV, 42.
2'The Marquis of San Miguel de Aguayo to the Viceroy [Nuestra Sefiora
de Guadalupe, August 19, 1721], in A. G. I., Audiencia de Mexico, 61-2-2,
folio 3.206
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