The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 5, July 1901 - April, 1902 Page: 179
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The Beginnings of Texas. 179
forage. They passed over broad stretches of prairie, broken with
occasional hills, and varied with dense thickets of mesquite and
thorny shrubs. On the prairies were vast herds of buffaloes which
afforded an abundant supply of meat for the company while it was
on the march. They crossed and named the rivers Nueces, Sarco
(Frio), Rondo, Medina,1 and Leon (San Antonio), and on the
14th of April camped near the Guadalupe. Here Captain Leon
called a consultation to determine the best plan of approaching the
French village, which the guide informed them was not far dis-
tant. It was thought best, after deliberation, that a part of the
company should advance to the village, while the rest went into
camp at a spot agreed upon. Accordingly Captain Leon set out
with sixty men to the southeast.3
When they had gone a short distance the rear guard captured an
Indian. I-Ie conducted them to his rancheria where, upon inquiry,
they learned that a few days before four white men had passed with
a band of Tejas Indians,4 going toward the north. They learned.
also that the village of the white men upon Espiritn Santo Bay had,
about two months before, been plundered, and that all the people,
except a few who escaped, had been put to death by the coast
Indians." From this rancheria Captain Leon went on in pursuit
of the white men of whom he had heard, until he came to another
village of Indians, where he was informed that the white men had
gone on across the San Marcos River (Colorado). As he was
already separated by a considerable distance from the rest of his
company, and as he was told by the Indians that he would not be
'Derrotero de Leon, 3, 4, 6.
'The Leon was called an arroyo (creek), which seems to me to indicate
that it was crossed rather high up.
3Derrotero de Leon, 6.
'Fray Francisco de Jesus Maria (Relaeion MS. 112), after a resi-
dence of a year and three months at the mission of San Francisco de
los Tejas, has this to say of the name Tejas: "I observe that the name
Texias includes all the friendly nations; this name is common to all of
them, though the language may be different. The friendly nations, which
by another name are called Texias are as follows:" Hle then mentions
twenty tribes, which with the nine tribes of the Asinais constitute the
Tejas Nations.
'De',rotcro de Leon, 7.
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