Thus is accounted for the disappearance of a tribe that has long been an enigma to ethnologists and historians.
Bureau of American Ethnology,
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D. C.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The neighborhood here referred to was not the immediate vicinity, and the stream alluded to was much more likely to have been the Pecos than the Rio Grande, up which they were now journeying, the former river having been named “Rio de las Vacas” by Espejo in 1583.
[2] The rude Indians of the eastern coast of Texas.
[3] See Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca, translated by Buckingham Smith, New York, 1871; The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, translated by Fanny Bandelier, New York, 1905; The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, edited by F. W. Hodge, in Original Narratives of Early American History, New York, 1907.
[4] See the Relacion of Barrundo and Escalante, and other documents bearing on the journey, in Coleccion de Documentos Ineditos del Archivo de Indias, XV, pp. 80–150, Madrid, 1871.
[5] For the Espejo expedition, see Coleccion de Documentos Ineditos del Archivo de Indias, XV, 101 et seq., 1871.
[6] Discurso de las Jornadas, Documentos Ineditos del Archivo de Indias, XVI, 266–267, Madrid, 1871.
[7] Bandelier (Final Report, pt. I, p. 167, 1890) suggests that the pueblos of Cuelóce Xenopué and Patasce, mentioned in the Obediencia y Vasallaje a Su Magested por los Indios del Pueblo del Cuéloce (Doc. Ined. de Indias, XVI, 123–124) are identifiable with Quelotetrey, Genobey, and Pataotrey, respectively. Indeed, it seems practically certain that such is the case. The Obediencia says: ... “el Pueblo de Cuelóce que llaman de los rayados.... Yolhá, Capitan que dicen sér del Pueblo y gente deste Pueblo de Cuelóce; Pocastaquí, Capitan del Pueblo de Xenopué; Haye, Capitan del Pueblo de Patasce y Chilí [pueblo of Chililí by error?], Capitan del Pueblo de Abo.” These names are transcribed in the hope that eventually they may prove of some linguistic service.