The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 14, July 1910 - April, 1911 Page: 245
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Apache Relations in Texas, 1718-1750
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visiting the presidio was to be that of securing peace with the Span-
iards, but their real purpose was to spy out the location of the
horses in order to steal them. Alferez Galbin with a force of
twenty-eight men was sent out to seize these Indians, and they
were all captured at El Chapintillo, eight leagues away, and taken
to the presidio, where they were placed in confinement.1 A few
clays after the raid of September, the wife of Cabellos Colorados,
accompanied by three other Indian women and one brave, had gone
to the presidio to trade buffalo meat for tobacco. They had been
kindly treated and given to understand that as long as the Apaches
were quiet they would not be molested by the Spaniards. This
capitana and two of her companions were among those captured
with Cabellos Colorados.2
A few days after the imprisonment of Cabellos Colorados and his
band, the chief asked that one of the captives be sent to inform
their tribe of the arrest, so that their kinsmen might return the
horses that had been stolen in the last raid, and thus secure the
release of the prisoners. To undertake this embassy, choice was
made of one of the squaws, who promised to return within twenty
days. She did not come back until after forty days, when she
reported that she had carried out her mission, and that there were
some Indians nearby with sixteen horses to exchange for the pris-
oners in the presidio. At this time a great number of horses
came into the view of the Spaniards some distance away, and
Urrutia, ever wary, sent out spies to see what the Indians were
about. These spies reported that there were more than a thou-
sand armed Indians in the vicinity, and that the horses were only
a ruse to draw out the soldiers so that they might be killed and
the prisoners released. The Indians stayed in their camp for five
days, but Urrutia, being forewarned, did not go out to meet them,
as Almaz6n had done in 1 732. The horses which had been brought
1Urrutia to the viceroy, May 9, Expediente sobre la campafla, 4; Inter-
rogatorio, Tnfidelidad de Apaches, 4, 13. The alf6rez, Juan Galbban, was
of the opinion that the Indians did not intend to enter the presidio to
trade, for they had, he said, three horses and three burros that belonged
to citizens of the settlement, and would have been afraid to enter with
stolen property (Ibid.).
271terrogatorio, Infidelidad de Apaches, 4, 10.
3Urrutia to the viceroy, May 9, Expediente sobre la camparTa, 6-8
(Ibid., 7-8). Urrutia here tells of Almazln's encounter, as has been re-
lated on pages 226-227.
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