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Digest by Leopold of 
THE NARRATIVE OF CABEZA DE BACA 
 
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NOTE - Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Bacs, Csptain Andres 
Dorantes, and the negro Esteban, sole survivors of the 
Narvaez expedition to Florida, crossed afoot from the Red 
River in Texas, across the lower Pecos, to the Rio Grande 
above the junction of the Conchos, hence to Corazones (Ures) 
in 1536. It is doubtful if he entered New Mexico at all. 
 
Digest of de Baca 1528-1536 
 
Where de Baca crossed Rio Grande(above mouth of Concho)..o7 
Texas Coast Indians set fires to drive away mosquitoes...67 
Deer killed by encircling them with fireoo..oo....0 o...67 
Buffalo (cattle) controlled as to range by fire.........o67 
Coastal distribution of buffalo(Figueroal.........,..oooo68 
Texas Coast Indians had dogs.......... .....°°.°.°.°...°.80

Jackrabbits killed with clubs on lower Red River. 
Also killed deer and 
Pecos to Rio Grandes - "They guided us through more than 
50 leagues of desert, over rough mountains, which be- 
ing dry were without game, and in consequence we suf- 
fered much from hunger"... o.... .. . ... . ....o...o.*@99 
Buffalo - "They had found very few people; nearly all 
had gone for cattle, being then in season",............102 
"We called them (Jumanos) the cow nation, because most 
of the cattle killed are slaughtered in their neigh- 
borhood, and along up that river for over fifty 
leagues they destroy great numbers".............lo03 
(Editor thinks these Pueblos killed buffalo on Pecos,,, 
not Rio Grande, as de Vaca indicates).