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260 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
missionary fathers who accompanied Ram6n, in their Representa-
tion made at the same time reported the distance as eight leagues
east-south-east. Pefia (1721) says the distance was eight leagues
east-north-east from the presidio founded near the mission, and
nine from the mission. Rivera (1727) found the mission just
east of the "Rio de los Aynays," or the Angelina, and nine leagues
west of the Nacogdoches mission.1 These witnesses tally in the
main with each other and also, be it noted, with the testimony of
the San Antonio Road, as its route is now identified in the old
surveys. According to the best information obtainable it ran from
Nacogdoches a little north of west to the Angelina, passing it
about at Linwood Crossing.2 Espinosa tells us that he founded
the mission of Concepci6n a mile or two east of the place where
the highway crossed the Angelina, near two springs, in the middle
of the Hainai village. This site could not have been far from
Linwood Crossing.3
This Hainai tribe, as has been stated, was evidently the one
which Jesus Maria called the Cacha6 or Cataye. He said that be-
tween the Nacachau and the Nacogdoche, about midway, was the
lodge of the Great Xinesi, and-if we get his meaning here--
that immediately northeast of this lodge was the Cacha6 tribe.
From other data we learn that the Xinesi's house was within or on
the borders of the Hainai territory, about three leagues from the
Concepci6n mission, and apparently west of the Angelina. The
Cacha6 thus correspond, in location and relations, to the Hainai,
while, moreover, the latter are the only tribe that appear in
this locality after 1716. Considering with these facts the proba-
bility that Jesus Maria would hardly have left the head tribe un-
mentioned in so formal a description as is his, and the fact that
there was an Asinay tribe. 'Similarly, the Memorias copy of the iRepre-
sentaci6n of the "Padres Misioneros" dated July 22, 1716 (Vol. XXVII,
163) states that the mission of Concepci6n was founded for the "Asinays,"
whereas the original of that document, as of Espinosa's diary, reads
"Ainai." This error has been copied and popularized.
1Ram6n, Derrotero, in Memorias de Nueva Espaia, XXVII, 158; the
"Padres Misioneros," Representaci6n, Ibid., 163; Pefia, Diario, Ibid.,
XXVIII, 43-44; :Rivera, Diario, leg. 2142.
2Maps of Cherokee and Nacogdoches counties (1879), by I. C. Walsh,
Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas, compiled from official
data.
'Espinosa, Diario, entries for July 6 and 7; Ram6n, Derrotero, op. cit.
'Espinosa, Cr6nica A post6lica, 424; Morff, Mem. Hist. Texas, Bk. II, MS.
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