Refugio County Press (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 2013 Page: 4 of 16
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
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Many languages were spoken in El Copano
1 Copano was the major
1 port in south Texas in the
I 1 j 1830s-1840s and a landing
back into the early 1700s.
It was the major entry point for San
Antonio and was active during the
Texas revolution in 1836. How many
languages would have been spoken
in El Copano? Before about 1820,
only Spanish. But after that, surpris-
ingly, quite a few with the arrival of
the European and American immi-
grants under the empresario system.
Beginning in 1822, there would have
been: Irish or Gaelic, Irish English,
Coastal
Chronicles
By C. Herndon
Williams, Ph.D.
Bend
American English, Iberian Spanish,
Mexican Spanish, the Karawankan
tongue, and most importantly,
sign language. These would be the
major languages with smatterings
of French, Portuguese, Creole and
German. German would have been
the most important European lan-
guage up the coast at Indianola, but
not until 1845.
The official language of the inhabit-
ants of Texas in the 1820s and 1830s
would, of course, have been Spanish.
The early Anglo empresarios and set-
tlers had to become fluent in both spo-
ken and written Spanish in order to do
business and deal with the governmen-
tal administrators. Spanish remained
the official language until the success-
ful Texas revolution. But in the late
1820s and early 1830s, there was a
large influx of European immigrants,
mostly from Ireland, into the Coastal
Bend.
Surprisingly, Gaelic would have been
the first language of the Irish immi-
grants who landed at El Copano in the
late 1820s and 1830s. Gaelic had been
spoken in Ireland since 300 BC. That
continued until the Elizabethan con-
quest of Ireland in the 1600s. Queen
Elizabeth outlawed the system of Gaelic
law and literature. English became the
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Do not take the life of anything that you don’t intend to eat
ne of the best
m ■ gifts in life that
m f 1 ever received
was being able
to share my life with
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two little boys that have
grown into men exhib-
iting good moral val-
ues. Contributing to the
direction of their moral
compass was not so easy.
When it came to fish-
ing and hunting there
was a rule set in place
by myself that I felt pas-
sionate about and was to
be followed with zero tol-
erance. If this rule was
broken the fishing and
hunting gear would be off
limits for one month as
punishment. That rule is
“Do not take the life of
anything that you don’t
intend to eat”with the
only exception being self
defense.
Christmas day the boys
received their very own
gun and their stockings
were full of ammo. After
a review on gun safety
issues I reminded them of
the rule. New years day
the boys were attacked by
two grackles that quote
must have had rabies
unquote and a crazed
seagull that was surely
going to peck their eye-
balls out of their head
if not been shot. Since
I didn’t witness this
strange fluke of nature
they got by with that one.
Checking on the boys
and their friends as they
fished one Saturday
morning I looked through
the window to see the
eldest beating something
with a big stick. Looking
through the binoculars I
was able to see that it was
a big hard head catfish
that he had killed.
The boys returned
around lunchtime anx-
ious to clean the trout
that they had caught.
They presented the fil-
lets to me proudly. I
asked them where the
hard head fillet was and
the color seemed to fade
away from their faces. I
asked them if they want-
ed french fries or onion
rings with their fish and
told them to quit fooling
around and get that hard
head cleaned.
The youngest was smart
enough to say “both” that
he would like french fries
and onion rings (knowing
that he was having no
part in hard head con-
sumption) and was very
hungry. These were the
scavenger fish that his
“Pee-Paw” called turd
rustlers. I cooked about
two pounds of fish and all
was eaten including the
hard head between four
boys and nothing was
said about the beating.
The boat left port at 5:30
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On the water
By Teresa Hornburg
a.m. leaving Acapulco
Bay to travel through
deep turquoise blue, crys-
tal clear Pacific waters to
arrive at our “sweet spot”
around 7 a.m. Pacific big
game “sweet spots” cover
about a five mile radi-
us. At 7:30 my reel was
screaming and I saw the
magnificent sailfish jump
out of the water and the
fight was on!
The deckhands were
steadily dousing my reel
with water to keep it
from burning up. I was
strapped into a fighting
chair for 45 minutes. If
this fight would have
been one on one I would
have lost one minute into
it. I weighed in at 115
pounds and was 5 foot 3
inches long the fish out
weighed me by 17 pounds
and was 8 foot 2 inches of
solid muscle. The fish was
an incandescent almost
neon blue with subtle
hints of pink and bright
yellow details around her
eyes. She was enormous
and dangerous until a
deckhands billy club did
its job very quickly and
seemingly painless.
Immediately the color
faded to a dark green and
I was sad, very sad. I
thought of how hypocriti-
cal I had been with the
boys. Everyone aboard
was cheering but me. The
long trip back to port was
miserable as I was hold-
ing back tears trying to
be the big game angler
that I’m not. On arrival
I noticed a rather large
crowd gathering at our
berth.
The deckhands yelled
to the crowd in Spanish,
telling them the weight
of my fish and I didn’t
understand why these
people were so happy for
me. It was when the cap-
tain asked me if I wanted
the meat is when I start-
ed to feel better about the
kill. I told him that I just
wanted the trophy realiz-
ing that these people were
hungry and they needed
meat. As they lined up
to receive their share of
what I provided for them,
knowing that hungry
child is going to have a
good supper tonight.
I felt truly blessed to
have met that sailfish.
Alligator gar is in abun-
dance in Mission,Aransas
and Nueces rivers. It got
a little crowded this past
weekend. Be nice. Trout
are steady on croaker
in three or more feet of
water. Try using a gold
spoon and/or a Carolina
rig with cut perch or live
mullet. Peak times today
are 5 p.m. and then again
at 11 to midnight. Fish
Friday morning from
sunrise till about noon.
Saturday and Sunday
look favorable in the
afternoon till dark.
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