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Excerpt from Spanish Activities on the Lower Trinity River, 1746-1771
Since his diary gives us our first intimate account of a large stretch of country and of the earliest Spanish contact with a dis tinct group of natives in their own home, its contents have unique historical interest, and will, therefore, be still further drawn upon. Leaving Nacogdoches on February 7 and going southwest, on March 6 Orobio was near the Trinity at a place which he called Santa Rosa de Viterbo. Here he found a settlement of Bidai Indians living in seven rancheri'as2 of bearskin tents, their regular winter habitations. The presence of Spaniards here, which, we are informed, had never occurred before, aroused much interest and comment among the natives, as can be well understood. With the chief Orobio held a long conference, but that over, his stay was brief.
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