The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 10, July 1906 - April, 1907 Page: 260
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
As this savage was going to visit those with whom Dorantes was,
he was likely one of that tribe-the Mariames, the same with whom
Dorantes was now, since they were the same that killed Esquivel,
as we have already seen. These Mariames were the second tribe
beyond 'the anc6n, according to Cabeza, and hence here is evidence,
inasmuch as they came from the west with Dorantes to the river
of nuts, that this river was west of the great anc6m at least the
width of a tribe-if not further. Nothing but the Guadalupe will
satisfy these conditions.
Considering the one day journey cf Dorantes across the "great
water," and the twenty leagues further back to the river of nuts,
which he went, and keeping in view also Cabeza's location of the
tribes, we shall see that a more eastern position for this river is not
indicated, unless Dorantes did not get so far west as Oviedo attests
by the itinerary and Cabeza implies by the situation of the tribes.
To review Dorantes's limits:-We might infer from the combina-
tion of the two accounts, that Dorantes met Figueroa three leagues
beyond the narrow anc6n-our Cedar Creek; for Oviedo says that
it was twelve leagues to this pass, and Cabeza says that they met
"another of our parties" (who was Figueroa, of course), when they
had gone fifteen leagues from the first anc6n. But this twelve and
fifteen are two different estimates of the distance between the
ancones, made by the two narratives, since Figueroa and his Indian
came over water to where the other "nine" were, and he came from
the other side [parte] of an anc6n, so narrow that the white men
could see and call to the Indian there. The only two swimmers of
the party went back with him. This starts Figueroa and these
swimmers on St. Joseph's island. Turning to Cabeza,1 we note
that he makes Figueroa say that some time before that, while with
these same Indians here, he learned from them that with the Mari-
ames there was a Christian who had come on with the Guevenes;
and he adds that with these, this stranger came on over to the other,
or western, side of the narrow anc6n and met him (Figueroa)
there. This was the Esquivel already noted-one of the commis-
sary's men, who was still struggling on west, from the great anc6n,
where the governor was lost, and where lived these Guevenes.
Naturally the inference is that Figueroa was then with the tribe
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