The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, July 1923 - April, 1924 Page: 290
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Indians in a moment felt that their maladies were better, and
gave them of what they had to eat, which was nothing more than
leaves of tunas, buried, and some tunas in the same manner, al-
though they were green. And they remained there with those
Indians fifteen days to rest somewhat because they were weak and
not able to travel. And they ate of those leaves of tunas until
they began to ripen, and they were rested and recovered and gath-
ered more strength, and were restored somewhat to themselves.
And the Indians made much of them, and gave them of all they
had with very good will, which they never had found until that
time among any Indians of all that they had seen and treated
with, but only ill-treatment and cruelty as has been said.
From there they went to other Indians two leagues forward,
who gave them many things because of the cures, and who made
many feasts, and gave them very good food of tunas and meat,
and went to hunt solely for the Christians; and there they became
somewhat stronger. And thus God was good, so that although
they thought to march until they saw the fruit bear eight years,
following the difficulties and inconveniences of the long road, they
marched in ten months, which was a very great miracle. While
they were there some women came, who were there from farther
on, to carry for them, and these Christians at once departed from
there, regretted much by those Indians, who followed them, re-
questing that they come back; so that next day they could go
with those women, as has been said. And when they would not
do so, the Indians turned back, very sad, and the women followed
behind the Christians (in order that they be not lost) and they
went by the road which they had already told them about, and
became lost. And it pleased God that at the end of two or three
leagues they came together by the water of a spring or small river,
and the women were exhausted and dying, as though they marched
for their lives. And from there they went with them, and they
marched that day eight or nine long leagues, without leaving the
road all day when they could travel, and before the sun was set
Cuchendados, however, did it occur to them to make use of the prestige
which these faith cures brought them as a means of subjecting the In-
dians to their will and furthering their own ends.290
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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/m1/296/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.