The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 6, July 1902 - April, 1903 Page: 253
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Reminiscences of Early Texans.
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sharp at driving a bargain. He was wont to say that if Austin
would trade with him he could cheat him out of his Colony.
In the year 1834 or 1835, the Tonkewas, instigated by the Mexi-
cans of Victoria, treacherously assassinated fifteen or twenty of the
Carancawas. The Tonkewas went to the camp of the Carancawas,
taking with them a small boy who secretly cut the bowstrings of
the Carancawas, upon which the Tonkewas fell upon them and
murdered all but two or three.
The DeLeons and other Mexicans of Victoria had large stocks of
cattle near the coast. They charged the Carancawas (and proba-
bly with truth) with stealing their cattle, and one of them resolved
to exterminate the Indians by means of poison. The person to
whom he applied for the poison, divining his purpose, gave him
cream of tartar instead of arsenic. A large quantity of boiled corn
was the vehicle of this supposed poison. The savory hominy was
charitably distributed to the red men who took it to their camp and
ate it. The next morning to the astonishment of the hospitable
Don, the Carancawas presented themselves before him and begged
for another supply of boiled corn!
In the spring of 1836 the Carancawas could still count twenty
five or thirty warriors. When the Mexican army of invasion
reached our frontier they joined it and fought against us at the
Mission of Refugio in March 1836. They had previously offered
to fight for the Americans but their offer was either rejected or
neglected.1
1NoTE.-In the year 1855 the once formidable tribe of Carancawas had
dwindled to six or eight individuals who were residing near San Fernando,
State of Tamaulipas, Mexico.-J. H. K.
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