The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, July 1923 - April, 1924 Page: 291
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The Expedition of Pdnfilo de Narviez
they arrived at a river,5 which to them appeared to be wider than
Gaudalquivir in Sevilla, and they crossed it, all to the knee, then
to the thigh, and over two lances in length to the breast, but
without danger. They proceeded on their way, and arrived at
nightfall at a town of nearly a hundred ranchos, and very many
people, where they came out to receive them with much shouting
and screaming, and with some gourds full of small stones, with
which they make their rejoicings and music. And though they
believed that these Christians had much power to heal illness,
they were brought with much fear and perturbation to approach
and touch the Christians. But notwithstanding their fear, they
suffered themselves to come, with much reverence and devotion,
like one who touches a holy body. And thus those Indians, some
before the others, and many bolder than the others, anticipating
from their manner that they would not be given place (changed
from their fear) with such celerity that they were presently touch-
ing their eyes with their fingers. And thus they stayed, and turned
their feet to their houses, and brought them presently the sick to
be healed, and gave to an Indian who came with the Christians
many arrows and things, because he brought them and had guided
them by there. And the day following they took them a league
and a half from there to another settlement [pueblo] of seventy or
eighty ranchos, at which they ate tunas in much abundance, and
there they received them in the same manner as in the first settle-
ment [pueblo]. And they were given twenty-eight loaves of meal,
which is one thing that these people there eat, called mesquite.
And they were given other things; and they made many feasts,
with dances and rejoicings, following their custom.6
'The Rio Grande. (THE QUARTERLY, XXII, 232-236.) No other river
at which they would have arrived traveling west, northwest or southwest
from the northern edge of the tuna region on the Gulf Coast could by any
stretch of the imagination be compared with Gaudalquivir at Sevilla.
Naufrdgios makes the same comparison: "In the afternoon we crossed a
big river, the water being more than waist deep. It may have been as
wide as the one at Sevilla, and had a swift current." (Bandelier, 129;
Hodge, 90.) Buckingham Smith says that Gaudalquivir is 100 paces
wide at Sevilla.
Historic de Nuevo Leon: A graphic picture of the Coahuiltecan tribes,
among whom these pilgrims wintered after escaping from the Mariames
and with relays of whom they traveled the following summer, at least
until they met a "people from afar" of another language and stock, in
the region of Monclova, is supplied by Captain Alonso de Leon, in291
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