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Show Savages, to arrive at the conclusion that the survivors of the Narvaez expedition crossed the Pecos 180 Bandelier, trans., p. 144. Mrs. Fanny, The at some Journey point of Alvar far enough Nufiez Cabeza above de its Vaca, Co AE Se ewooinotins-Ceapnrineaieioen roeceongonenneecnaeneenime aencet: 4sorpaed ¥ Ae] SULMOYS < = Q5 MN ES i= o> co faded OD TUNZ-BlOQI Coronado, either themselves had seen Cabeza de Vaca and his companions, or had information from other Indians who were cognizant of the crossing of the Pecos river, to the south, by Cabeza de Vaca, who in his narrative states that while traveling ‘‘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.” :*° Afterwards Cabeza de Vaca was guided more than fifty leagues through a desert of rugged mountains, and so arid that there was no game. Later the same Indians led them to a plain beyond the chain of mountains where people came to meet them from a long distance. These people were told by the Spaniards that their route was toward the sunset, and the Indians replied that in that direction people lived very far away; that they did not care to go to them as they were their enemies, yet they did finally send two women, one of their own and the other a captive from the country itself; these women returned saying that they had met very few people, nearly all having gone after the ‘‘cows,’’ as it was the season. The following day, the woman who was a captive took Castillo and Estevan to a ‘‘river that flows between mountains, where there was a village, in which her father lived, and these were the first abodes we saw that were like unto real houses.’’ Castillo and Estevan went to these and, after holding parley with the Indians, at the end of three days Castillo returned to where he had left the other two, bringing with him five or six of the Indians, telling how he had found permanent houses, inhabited, the people living in them eating beans, squashes, and that he had also seen maize. Instead of carrying the wanderers far into the north to the Arkansas, or even to Red river, or making them cross the Rio Grande far to the south near and above the point where the Pecos empties into it, why, while indulging in mere speculation, is it not equally satisfactory, taking into consideration the now well known topography of western Texas, until recent years the domain of hostile and cruel ir HISTORY — ‘<q or a _ oD cS pm a © or od Se © —~ — — a — ee ge~ \— deut sty, MEXICAN 0} posuojeq OF NEW aca a oD or UBUAI;T FACTS SoJ10Q LEADING pue 120 |