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264 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
this river, the former adding that it was right across the stream
from the Neche tribe.' Joutel and Ram6n called the distance
from center to center of the two villages about five leagues.2
In comparing these estimates with those that follow we must
remember that it was somewhat further from the village to the
crossing of the river than to the river at its nearest point,
for as early as 1691 it was found that the best crossing was
down stream a league or more." Keeping these things in
mind, it may be noted that Pefia's diary makes the distance
from San Pedro to the crossing four leagues. In his entry
for July 27, 1721, he says, "The Father President F. Ysidro
Felix de Espinosa went ahead with the chief of the texas, who
wished to go to arrange beforehand the reception in the place
where the first mission had been." In his entry for the next day
he says, "Following the same direction of east-northeast, the
journey was continued to the place of S. Pedro . . . where the
Presidio and Mission had been placed (for the Spaniards did not
go beyond this point) in the year '90." Here the reception was
held, and presents were made to Aguayo by the Indians of the
"ranchos which are near by," the point being, according to Peiia's
diary, fifteen leagues northeast from the crossing of the Trinity,4
and four from the crossing of the Neches, passing by the site of
the presidio as it was first established in 1716. Rivera's diary
makes the distance from San Pedro to the crossing something over
four leagues, or six to the mission on the other side. His record
is interesting. He writes, on August 5, "I camped this day near a
prairie which they call San Pedro de los Nabidachos, formerly
occupied by Indians of the tribe of this name, but at present by
the Neches tribe, of the group of the Aynays, head tribe of the
Province of Texas." His next entry begins, "This day, the sixth,
. . . continuing the march in the same direction [east-one-
fourth-northeast] I traveled six leagues, crossing the Rio de los
'Relacin, 2, 6.
"Relation, in Margry, Dcouvertes, III, 341-344; Rambn, Derrotero,
op. cit.
"Terrn, Descripei6n y Diaria Demarcaci6n. ,Mem. de Nueva Espala,
XXVII, 47, 61.
4Diario, in Men. de Nueva Espaa, XXVIII, 34-35. The Italics are
mine. It may be noted that Pefia and Rivera give quite commonly shorter
leagues than the others.
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