The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 10, July 1906 - April, 1907 Page: 274
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
mountains, and at the end of them [the fifty leagues] met forty
dwellings." Hence, according to Oviedo, Cabeza's fifty leagues be-
gan three days later than his eighty; and according to Cabeza they
began four days later. Now four days' travel amounts to thirty
leagues, and the discrepancy is accounted for, or found not to
exist.
At the end of the inland journey they found forty "dwellings,"
says Cabeza, and Oviedo adds that they were at the foot of the
sierra, and the Indians here said that they were from a more inland
region, and were on the way to their own land.1 Both accounts
mention receiving the copper rattle here, which was from the north.
Oviedo says later that at this point they had come "one hundred
and fifty leagues, a little more or less, from where they had com-
menced to journey." Since we have seen that there were eight or
more days of actual travel from the Avavares to the river at the
foot of the mountains, or about seventy leagues, and since it is
from this point that Oviedo measures his eighty leagues inland, we
may see that he is very consistent in his estimates, as the seventy
from the total one hundred and fifty leave eighty.
Oviedo says nothing about where this northward journey termi-
nates, except that they could still turn west into the mountains at
the end of it. Since he makes no mention of a great river, it seems
probable that he did not reach the Colorado, 'though, it must be
admitted that his and Cabeza's "beautiful river," on which they
found the next village just a day west over a mountain could have
been on this stream; and the number of leagues inland will lead
forty miles beyond it northward, unless there was great meander-
ing on the way.
Beyond this, till he gets to what is evidently the Rio
Grande, Oviedo has not a single detail of the way that may
aid us topographically, except the mention of a very great abun-
dance of pifions. Cabeza has details2 that are quite definite, but
not always consistent with any topography, or sequence of topog-
raphy, that can be recognized. He has a large river coming from
the north which he croses in company with the Indians beyond
the beautiful stream; then there is a plain of thirty leagues to a1They were likely Caddo stock from the Red River Valley.
2Pp. 144-150.
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