El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-05
scouts, thew went On.

scouts, they went en-.
From this time they were loadet
down with buffalo skins, and Cabezl
called the people the Cow Nation
They lived. Largely on beans and Gala
pashes. Whenever these people wish
ed to cook anything they heated la-g.
stones and dropped them into the hal
of large calabash which had beer
| filed with water. When the water bat
been thus Gated, whatever was to bs
cooked was dropped into it.
AS they went on, food became more
plentiful and settled habitations more
! frequent. In one town they were pre-
sented with 600 hearts of deer. on &C.
| count Of which they called the town
Corazones. This town was the en-.
| trance into the South Sea provinces
or the provinces On the Gulf of Cali.
forpia. While here the Spanierds saw
| on the neck of ore of the Indians, q
buckle of sword belt, to which a nail
was fastened. It came. the Indians
said, from white men, who wore
boards, and who had gone to the
south.
AS these four men were the first Eu-
ropeans to traverse this country, their
route is a matter of grea. interest. The
only data for determining this is Cabe-
Za's account, necessarily unreliable as
to dates and definite information 1t is
question that has excited great inter-
est, and one that had been discuss. d
with widely varying results. To make
positive assertions is under the circum-
stances impossible: to make app oxi-
nate ones difficult. Were proof of this
needed, it is conclusively shown in the
fact that after careful studs on the ID art
of three or four of our great historians,
Buckingham Smith, H. 81 Bancroft,
A. F. Bandelier and others. men too
well known to need comment, they
have each settled on different route.
Then follows several pages discussing
various theories, which the young his
torlans summarize as follows:
First, Cabeza met his friends after
their long separation, somewhere near
the mouth of the Colorado. This is
the only place on the gulf coast which
satisfies all the conditions given in the
relation: W 1t is about thirty leagues
from the great cactus region; (2) it is
within few days journey from q
group of sandbills seveuty-fve feet
high, On, uncommon feature on the
Texas coast; (3) the buffalo range ex-
tended to this point, and probably no
farther: (4) there are four large
streams, east of Matagorda bay, which
flow directly into the gulf.
Second, be passed through the south
ern part of New Mexico, and probably
a cended the Pecos or Rio Graude to
near the central part. This we believe,
W because the pinon region does not
extend into Texas beyond the Guada-
dslupe mountains, and we know that
Cabezs travelled many days north after
entering this region; ~ there is also
positive evidence that Corona'o, who
did not come farther south than the
Both parallel, found traces of Cabeza
and his friends.
Third, between these two points he
pr: ably followed the natural r, ute
indicated on the map. Tho evidence
as to the exact route is rot SO conclu-
slve, and the IS not so positive az
Il is IN regard to the two points men.
toned above. But these seem to fix
the general direction OF the route, and
nothing is found in the narrative
which is contradictory: but, on the
Otber hand, much of the description
sci YES to strengthen this CONCLUSION
aid render it fairly probable.-Hous.
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