The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, July 1928 - April, 1929 Page: 188
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Counties, Texas, and in Roosevelt County, New Mexico. There-
fore the army in returning to the Rio Cicuye (Rio Pecos) must
have marched at least as far south as the salt lakes in these
counties.
The Ravines. Castafieda, Part 1, Chapter 19: [Maldonado]
"reached a large ravine like those of Colima, in the bottom of
which he found a large settlement of people."8
Castafieda, Part 1, Chapter 20: "The ravine which the army
had now reached was a league wide from one side to the other,
with a little bit of a river at the bottom, and there were many
groves of mulberry trees near it. . . ."1
Castafieda, Part 1, Chapter 21: "Many fellows were lost at this
time who went hunting and did not get back to the army for two
or three days, wandering about the country as if they were crazy,
in one direction or another, not knowing how to get back where
they started from, although this ravine extended in either direc-
tion so that they could find it. Every night they took account of
who was missing, fired guns and blew trumpets and beat drums
and built great fires, but yet some of them went off so far and
wandered about so much that all this did not give them any help,
although it helped others. The only way was to go back where
they had killed an animal and start from there in one direction
and another until they struck the ravine or fell in with somebody
who could put them on the right road. It is worth noting that
the country there is so level that at midday, after one has wandered
about in one direction and another in pursuit of game, the only
thing to do is to stay near the game quietly until sunset, so as to
see where it goes down, and even then they have to be men who
are practiced to do it. Those who are not, had to trust themselves
to others."20
Castafieda, Part 2, Chapter 7: "There are no groves of trees
except at the rivers, which flow at the bottom of some ravines
where the trees grow so thick that they were not noticed until one
was right on the edge of them."21
8Ibid., 505.
9lIbid., 507.
"2Ibid., 508, 509.
'Ibid., 527.188
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