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Excerpt from The Jumano Indians in Texas, 1650-1771
On January 1, 1684, the party, leaving Father Acevedo to min ister to the Indians at La Junta (or La Novedad de las Cruces, as it was now called), set out for the country of the Nueces River. From La Junta the route was evidently north, or a little east of north, to the Salado (pecos), which was reached on the thirteenth, after going seventy leagues.2 The point was perhaps in Pecos County, opposite Crane County, Texas, though it may have been a short distance farther west, in Reeves County.3 Following the river for nine leagues, they crossed to the village of the J ediondas, at the foot of a great rock which serves them as a protection against the hostile Apaches.4 Here Mendoza stopped seven days. Leaving the Pecos, he now marched eastward across an unwatered plain. Forty leagues out he struck the head of an east-flowing stream, remarkable for its shells (concheria). Mendoza called the river the N ueces, regarding it as the one he had come to find. It was perhaps the middle Concho. Following this stream east twenty-one (or twenty - four?) leagues, and passing by one or two tributaries, he came to the Rio de Senor San Pedro, which is the principal [river], called de las Perlas, or, by another name, de las Nueces [nuts], although they all have them, which river is the one appearing in the order which I bear and which order is now fulfilled. Said point is about eight leagues further down the said River than the place where Don Diego de Guadalajara ar rived.5 The point where this entry was written was perhaps near San Angelo, at the junction of the North and Middle Concho rivers.
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