The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, July 1923 - April, 1924 Page: 284
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and chanced to find an Indian people10 who had come there that
same day, who were great enemies of the others with whom the
Christians had been, and they received him very well. At the end
of three or four days, the negro, who was on his trail, and Alonso
del Castillo, who were together, arrived, and there they agreed to
seek for Cabeza de Vaca, who was waiting further on. They saw
some smoke columns in the distance, and arranged that Dorantes
and the negro should go to this smoke, and that Castillo should
remain there to assure the Indians not to believe they were going,
and saying, that they thought it was their other companion who
was making this smoke, and that they would bring him to their
company, and that Castillo would wait until their return. And
they left them, and went thus and searched well, going about until
night, when they met with an Indian, who took them to where
Cabeza de Vaca was, who told them how he had come to seek them.
And it pleased God that those Indians moved next day near to
where Castillo had remained, and there they joined again, and all
three praised Our Lord, and resolved as Christians (and as gentle-
men, which each of them was), that they would not live this life
of savages, which separated them from the service of God and
from all good reason.
And with this good resolution, like men of good caste and de-
termination, they went; and thus Jesus Christ, in his infinite
mercy, guided and worked with them, and opened the roads, in a
land without roads; and the hearts of the savage and untamed
men, God moved to humble themselves to them and obey them, as
will be told further on.
And thus they went that day, without being heard, and knowing
not where to go, but confiding in the Divine Mercy, seeking for
some tunas that were in the land, although it was time for them
to be gone, because it was through October, and it pleased the
Mother of God that early this day they met with Indians,'" which
10The Anagados, according to Cabeza de Vaca.
"1The most unsatisfactory portion both of the Oviedo narrative and of
NAaufrdgios, concerns the months spent with these Indians, whom Cabeza
de Vaca calls Avavares. Oviedo says only that these Indians were very
gentle; that they had heard of the Christians, but did not know how badly
the other Indians had treated them; that by reason of the tunas failing in
the country through which they had to travel, at the beginning of October
the Spaniards came to the necessity of wintering with.them, and so re-284
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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/m1/290/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.