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CHAPTER II.
AT the time of the landing of the French colony, and for
many years afterward, the territory now known as TEXAS was
peopled only by Indians, and but sparsely by them. Indeed,
it is more than probable that no European had previously been
upon her soil.* The nearest Spa isih settlement was at Panu-
co, near Tampico, a distance of more than two hundred leagues
south of the Lavaca river.t On the northeast, Fort Prudhomme,
at the mouth of the Wabash, and Fort Crevecour, on the Illi-
nois, had, but a year or two before, been constructed by the
French. The Spanish colony in Florida, though formed some
time before, was languishing. The city of Philadelphia had
been founded but three years before, by the pious Penn. The
colonies of New Englandi, numbering then about a hundred
thousand inhabitants, were struggling with Great Britain for
* This point has been much controverted. Many distinguished writers have
supposed that the followers of Dc Soto traversed the country in 1544, or about
that time. The authorities they refer to are mostly Spanish. If such had been
the fact, and these authorities reliable, it is quite remarkable that, in the long
controversy between the United St .tes and Spain, touching this very question,
the proof was not forthcoming-Anri a State Papers, vol. xii.
t Panuco is situated an the PNnuto or Tampico river, and is celebrated in the
history of the conquest It is still remarkable for the remains of b ildings,
weapons, and utensils, found in its vicinity. It is forty miles above Tampicode
las Tamaulipas, which w sfounds in 1824. Small vessels cannavigate the
river as far as Panuco.-Enyclopedifa of Geography, vol. iii , p. .3 American
State Papers, vol. xii., p. 313.,,U
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Yoakum, H. (Henderson K.), 1810-1856. History of Texas: From Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 1, book, 1855; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2385/m1/33/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.