The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 2, July 1898 - April, 1899 Page: 295
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Discovery of Bay of Es iritu Santo.
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other necessaries, such as vestments and other things, I should pro-
cure them myself. It was determined that the journey should take
place afte-' Christmas, so when the Christmas feast was over His
Excellency dispatched Capt. Francisco Martinez with twenty mules
laden with wine, wax and so on, also clothing for distribution
among the Indians, and six loads of tobacco; and at the College of
the Holy Cross at Queretaro, with the priests who were to accom-
pany me, I awaited him. These priests were the Father Predicador
Fray Miguel Fontecuberta, the Father Predicador Fray Francisco
de Jesus Maria, the Father Predicador Fray Antonio Perea, the
Father Predicador Fray Francisco Hidalgo, the Father Predicador
Fray Antonio Bordoy. Those who remained in the Mission San
Salvador were the fathers Fray Antonio Perea and Fray Francisco
Hidalgo.
We left Coahuila for the Tejas on the third day of the Easter
feast, March 28, '90. When we left, the twenty soldiers from Viz-
caya had not yet arrived. The forty from Zacatecas were for the
most part tailors, carpenters, masons, miners-in short, none of
them could catch the horses on which were they to ride that day,
for when they had once let them go they could manage them no
longer. Besides, we had saddles that could not have been worse.
Thus we went on traveling by the route described in the journal
which was kept of this expedition. What I noticed was that on our
first trip we had found many Indians along the rivers and every-
where else, while this time we went to inspect the bay of Espiritu
Santo and returned to the Guadalupe river without having found
a single Indian in the country. Twenty of us reached the fort
built by the Frenchmen, the rest remained with the horses by the
Guadalupe river. We saw no trace of Frenchmen having been
there during our absence, all being as we had left it the year be-
fore, except that, certainly, there were signs that the Indians had
dwelt there. I myself set fire to the fort, and as there was a high
wind'3-the wood, by the way, was from the sloop brought by the
Frenchmen, which had sunk on entering the bay-in half an hour
the fort was in ashes. This was at the hour of noon; afterwards
we went down to the coast of the bay, all along the banks and the
18 In the Spanish the parenthetical remark is not out off from the con-
text, but I believe the translation gives the meaning accurately. Cf. orig-
inal.
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