The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, July 1923 - April, 1924 Page: 281
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The Exp.edition of PInplto de iTarvdez
months alone, suffering much hunger and continuous labor, and
with the fear that he would be killed some day, inasmuch as he
saw them kill their own sons without pity or mercy, for any mon-
strous dream, and who thus had killed Esquivel for the same
reason. And so, when he saw an Indian coming toward him, or
by where he was working, digging roots, he had no thought but
that they came to kill him for some dream, and had no security
until they passed onward, the more so that the Indians, for the
greater part, when they met poor Dorantes, showed themselves very
furious, and sometimes (and quite often) came towards him (and
towards the others who were there), pointing an arrow at his
breast, drawing the bow to the ear, and then laughing and saying,
"were you frightened ?"
These Indians eat roots; which they dig from the soil, the greater
part of the winter. These are very few, and dug with much labor.
And they pass the greater part of the year in very great hunger,
and all the days of their lives they work from morning until night.
Thus also they eat snakes, lizards, mice, insects, frogs, and such
other reptiles as they can find; also sometimes they kill deer, and
put fire to the prairies to kill them. They kill rats, of which
there are great quantities between those rivers. But all this is
little, because they eat as they move about by that river, all the
winter, from below to above, and from above to below, at no time
halting to seek food, frightening the game, and finishing every-
thing. Sometimes they eat fish which they kill in that river, but
few, except when it overflows, which is in the month of April;
and some years it overflows twice, the second time is through May,
and then they kill great quantities of fish, and very good ones,
and save many of them but lose more, because they have no salt,
and cannot carry them, or put them in storage to sustain them
afterward.
There are in the coasts of that river many nuts, which they eat
in their season, because they bear nuts one year and another they
do not. Sometimes one or two years pass that they bear no fruit,
but when there, these nuts are many, and the Indians are very
fond of them, and from all the region for twenty or thirty leagues
round about, they gather to eat them. Even then their necessities
are great, because so many people come to eat nuts that they281
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, July 1923 - April, 1924, periodical, 1924; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101086/m1/287/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.