Note 23 — Front matter

Escalante’s Letter (1778) translated in Land of Sunshine, Los Angeles, vol. XII, no. 5, April, 1900, p. 309. Confirmatory of this account is the mention of the same Juan Sabeata, of the Jumana tribe living on the Rio Nueces, three days’ journey eastward from the mouth of the Conchos, by Cruzati, evidently Governor Cruzat or Cruzate of New Mexico, who assumed the office in 1683. Sabeata refers to thirty-six tribes that lived on the Rio Nueces in 1683 (Cruzati in Mendoza, Viage, manuscript in Archivo General of Mexico, kindly communicated by Professor H. E. Bolton, now of Leland Stanford Junior University).