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288 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
cloak the powder he was carrying in a flask, and on striking the
light he dropped a spark on the powder, so that he burned his
whole side from head to foot. When the Indians learned that we
were in their territory, they must have come to the conclusion that,
since that man was lost, his comrades would be sure to look for
him. The next day they brought him his horse, and, since he
was so badly burnt that he could not help himself, the Indians
themselves saddled it for him, and assisted him to mount, telling
him by signs to follow them. They brought him very near to the
place where we were, just a couple of shots away. These Indians
who brought him, not wishing to approach us, signified to him that
he should go on, using signs to indicate to him where we were, at
the foot of a hill which he saw there. At the foot of that hill,
on the other side, they left him, and he reached us at nine in the
morning, which was for all a source of great satisfaction. We felt
very sorry when we saw how badly burnt he was.4
On the following day we left for the French settlement, and
when we were about three leagues from it there came out some
twenty-five Indians. Now the old Frenchman who accompanied
us took occasion to say that the French settlement was not in the
place to which the Indian guides were taking us. On the way
this Frenchman tried several times, by means of an Indian of the
Cavas nation whom he had with him, to make our two Indians
desert us, or say that it was very far, and that we should not be
able to cross the rivers which were on the way. I was so sorry
that the Frenchman should be given occasion to speak that I grew
annoyed, and Capt. Alonso de Leon said to me: "Father, we are
going where I wish to go." We continued following the two guides
quite three leagues; we arrived at a stream of very good drinking-
water, and the two Indians said to me: "Lower down on the bank
of this stream are the houses of the French, which must be about
three leagues off." Then the old Frenchman saw that there was
no help, and that we were certain to come upon the village. He
then said: 5"Sir, now I knew very well, yea, very well, that the
houses are on this little river."
We started the next morning, and three leagues off we found
4 Here the thread of the narrative is resumed.
e Here the Frenchman's words are given in what seems to be a conscious
reproduction of his broken Spanish. Cf. original.
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