Refugio County Press (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 21, 2013 Page: 4 of 20
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Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013
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VETERANS REUNION
Contributed photo
After 34 years, MSgt. Ernest Arroyo of Woodridge, Va., Ruben Reyes, gunnery sergeant from
Arlington, Elix Ortiz, corporal USMC of Woodsboro, and CpI. Robert Constantine of Victoria cel-
ebrated the U.S. Marine Corps birthday with a reunion in Woodsboro on Sunday, Nov. 10. Ortiz
hosted a barbecue dinner with old friends from his unit.
Donate gift cards,
cash or checks
for Brett Lopez
REFUGIO - The
Refugio County 4-H will
collect donations to help
member Brett Lopez of
Woodsboro with medical
and travel expenses. Brett
was severely burned in an
accident at his home on
Saturday, Nov. 16, and
will be in the hospital in
Galveston for six weeks.
The Refugio County 4-H
Council, Refugio County
4-H Booster Association,
Refugio County 4-H Clubs
and the Refugio County
Extension Office will be
taking donations of cash,
check, and gift cards until
Dec. 2 to help the Lopez
family.
Donations can be
brought to the Refugio
County Extension Office
at 107 E. Roca in Refugio.
Make checks payable to
the Refugio County 4-H
Booster Association.
Banana nut bread
provides a great treat
for the holidays
I have been trying
different banana nut
breads because I wound
up with 30 pounds of
bananas. So far this one
is pretty good. I made
two batches and one I
put 1/4 cup banana rum
in the dough. Not bad.
Banana nut bread
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
6 large bananas mashed
1 cup finely chopped
pecans
Heat oven to 275
cook 1 1/2 hours. That
is if you use two large
loaf pans. Smaller pans
Dining jriRK
with
Doris jk
By Doris
Pfei! 77
adjust cooking time.
Cream one and two.
Add eggs and beat two
minutes after each one.
Add sifted dry ingredi-
ents to creamed mix-
ture. Add bananas and
nuts. Pour into prepared
pans. Sprinkle more
pecans on top. This
bread needs to set three
days before serving. Not
at my house.
First Europeans mapped Aransas Bay in 1720
In 1720, Aransas Bay and mapped by a party of
and the upper end of Frenchman who thought
they were someplace else.
Coastal Bend
Chronicles
By C. Herndon Williams, Ph.D.
Copano Bay were explored
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Decades were to pass
before these misnamed
bays were correctly iden-
tified, but the map was
accurate.
This was all a result
of La Salle’s abortive
attempt to establish a
French colony in Texas
in 1685. In that year, La
Salle sailed through Pass
Cavallo into Matagorda
Bay.
The conventional story
was that La Salle was
looking for the mouth of
the Mississippi River, but
missed it.
La Salle may actu-
ally have been aiming
for the western Gulf
where the best map at
the time showed that the
Mississippi emptied into
the Gulf.
La Salle’s first expedi-
tion was to the west, look-
ing for the Mississippi. He
finally decided, a little too
late, that the Mississippi
was to the east.
By 1688, La Salle was
dead and his colony in
Texas was annihilated,
but French aspirations in
Texas lived on.
The French persist-
ed in their claim for La
Salle’s settlement site in
Texas and intended to
reoccupy it.
They looked for it but
were never able to find it
again. In the 1720s, the
French sent three suc-
cessive naval expeditions
from Louisiana seeking
La Salle’s colony site.
Two of these undershot
the mark and stopped in
Galveston Bay; one over-
shot the mark and came
ashore at Aransas Bay.
The latter expedition was
headed by Captain Jean
Beringer. He sailed in two
ships from Biloxi on Aug.
23, 1720.
Captain Beringer was
the most capable of the
French navigators in
Louisiana.
Between 1699 and
1722, Beringer made 17
voyages from France to
America.
Several days after
his departure in 1720,
Beringer’s two ships also
sailed into Galveston Bay,
but then continued west-
ward. Beringer sailed in
a safe three fathoms of
water (18 feet) and this
put them so far offshore
that they never saw Pass
Cavallo into Matagorda
Bay.
After “thirty leagues”
of sailing west from
Galveston Bay, they found
“a rather pretty bay” that
reached through a pass
with about nine feet of
water.
They actually had gone
through Aransas Pass
and were anchored in
Aransas Bay at the tip
of St. Joseph Island (cur-
rently San Jose Island).
Beringer thought he was
in St. Bernard’s Bay
although he was never
able to find any evidence
of La Salle’s colony.
He spent five days at
this anchorage careening
his two ships to caulk the
bottoms with the tar that
he found on the beach.
He encountered two
Copano Indian villages
of several hundred indi-
genes on what is now
Live Oak Point, and he
made observations of
their appearance and life-
style.
During this time, a
cartographer in his crew,
Valentin Devin, made
a detailed and accurate
map of the area which, of
course, was labeled Saint
Bernard’s Bay.
The map showed St.
Joseph Island, the end of
Mustang Island around
Live Oak Point, the
Lamar Peninsula, and the
northern end of Copano
Bay with the shoreline
extending to the point
where El Copano would
be.
They could not sail
into Copano Bay because
of the oyster reefs that
blocked the entrance.
Beringer sailed back
to Louisiana thinking he
had found the site of La
Salle’s colony, after bury-
ing an inscribed lead tab-
let under an oak tree on
Live Oak Point. There is
no record of this lead tab-
let ever being found.
The Spanish were also
trying to find the site of
LaSalle’s settlement.
They finally succeeded
on the 10th try in 1689,
a land expedition led by
Alonzo de Leon. Although
there were no Frenchmen
left alive at the site, the
Spanish resolved in 1720
to build a mission and
a presidio on Matagorda
Bay at Fort St. Louis to
prevent any French claim.
The Spanish also built
a fort on Mustang Island
at the entrance to the
Aransas Pass. It was
called Fort Aranzazu and
it was shown on a map in
1739, but no trace of it has
been found. La Salle’s set-
tlement certainly stirred
the Spanish to activity.
Herndon Williams is
affiliated with the Bay side
Historical Society and the
Refugio County Historical
Commission. He is the
author of the book, Texas
Gulf Coast Stories, pub-
lished in Dec 2010 by The
History Press. His second
book, Eight Centuries on
the Texas Frontier, was
published in May, 2013.
Email at cherndon8695@
sbcglobal.net
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