...its junction with the Rio Grande. Along…
1581 CE
Along more than one hundred miles of the Conchos River live the Concho and Raya Indians, who speak the same language and are "naked and lived on roots and other things."
Downriver, occupying forty miles of the river banks are the Cabris or Pasaguantes, also "naked" but speaking a different language and cultivating squash and beans in addition to gathering wild plants.
They are described as "very handsome."
Both the Concho and the Cabri have been victims of slave raids by Spaniards indicating that Spanish slavers had preceded the official expedition of Chamuscado and Rodriguez.
Near La Junta, the junction of the Conchos River and the Rio Grande, Chamuscado and Rodriguez find several groups of Indians.
At the junction and south Are the Abraidres; northward are the Patarabueyes and Otomoacos or Amotomancos. They are friendly, the men described as "handsome" and the women "beautiful".
They live in wattled houses and grow squash and beans, but the Spanish consider them "naked and barbarous people."
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