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LOST ON THE PLAINS. 89 from Ms country, saw that he was not taking ua where we ought to go, since we had always followed the guidance of Turk, for so he was caEed instead of his, he threw himself down in the way, making a sign that although we cut off his head we ought not to go that way, nor was that our direction. I beheve we had been traveling twenty days or more in this direction, at the end of which we found another set- tlement of Indians of the same sort and way of living as those behind, among whom there was an old blind man with a beard, who gave us to understand by signs which he made, that he had seen four others like us many days before whom he had seen near there and rather more toward New Spain. And so we understood him, and I presumed that it was Dor- antes and Cabeza de Vaca and those whom I have mentioned." These portions are recited so that the historical part of the expedition may be authoritatively known. The scholarly men who compiled the volume from which the citations are given, spared no labor in the compilation of the work for the United States Govern- ment. It expended a large amount of money in paying the numerous ethnologists, who put in years of re- search on the subject. You note that the Spaniards frequently speak of Indians they came across while going through Texas and Indian Territory. They are called Querechos, and the compilers of the Govern- ment's two volumes, in a note, say these were the Ck>manches; also the Spaniards have mentioned the Teyas Indians who were enemies of the Querechos. May not this name '"Teyas" be the origin of Texas?