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Campaigning in the Big Bend of the Rio Grande
leagues had been covered and the first battle of the campaign
had been fought in the eighteen days on the trail.
During the absence of the expedition the troops left behind
made their contribution and had a bit of excitement on their own
account. While guarding the baggage train on its way from the
Sierra de San Antonio to San Vicente, Indian tracks were found,
and a portion of the guard immediately turned off to investigate.
Before very long they unexpectedly came upon a rancheria whose
inhabitants took flight without attempting a parley, or to save
any of their possessions.
Among the articles deserted by their erstwhile owners was found
a safe-conduct which had been given by Don Crist6bal Granados,
one of the officers of Presidio del Norte, when the bearers sought
peace in that presidio the preceding February. As soon as the
peace agreement had been concluded the newly created "friends"
of the Spaniards had taken the safe-conduct and departed on a
raid into the Saltillo district. Horses and mules found in the
deserted encampment bore brands indicating that they had been
stolen from a half dozen different places in Coahuila and adjacent
territory.
Yet the inhabitants of these two rancherias were spoken of
by the officials of Nueva Vizcaya as inoffensive, peaceable friends
of the Spaniards who were being viciously subjected to attack by
the troops of Coahuila in direct violation of solemn agreements.
Ugarte, writing a complaining letter to the viceroy, spoke of them
as "rancherias which lived unguardedly, trusting in the faithful
observance of the peace granted them in the Presidio del Norte,
and residing there with full consent and knowledge of my agents.""
Seemingly the movements of the Indians were not as well known
to his agents as Ugarte would have Flores believe, for Elgu6zabal
first reported the fight in the Chisos Mountains to have been in
the Sierra del Carmen where the rancheria was supposed to have
been located "with his full knowledge and consent." But he was
later forced to acknowledge his error, saying: "I have since dis-
covered that Zapato Tuerto was attacked in the Chisos and not in
the Sierra del Carmen."12
tUgarte to Flores, Arispe, October 15, 1787, Provinoias Internas, vol.
112, A. G. M.
"Elgudzabal to Ugarte, Presidio del Norte, April 21, 1787, Provincias
Internaas, vol. 112, A. G. M.213
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