ioo, in tha Texas Indians.
It is clear that all these forces were leading slowly hut surely to the occupation of central and eastern Texas, even in tha absence of the stimulus of foreign aggression. But the old interests were now all quickened by rumors of foreign encroachment, and thenceforth the various lines of advance rapidly converged and led to the settlement of the country beyond the Trinity. At the same time the TIL Paso district, at the other extreme of Texas, became definitely settled as a result of a counter movement from Hew Mexico.
19	The	Settlement	of	the	K] Paso District
The center of the province of Hew Mexico transferred to. the El ??-so district, remained to end of seventeenth century.
In 1659, a mission, Huestra Senora de Guadalupe, was begun at El jEaso, on the south side of the river, and a small civil settlement g rew up there. Before 1680 another mission, San Francisco ne los Sumas, was founded some twelve leagues down the river. In 1680 the colony received a large accretion through the revolt of the Pueblo Indians of Hew Mexico.
As a result of this event all the Spanish inhabitants and the Indians of three pueblos retreated down the river and settled at the Pass and at different points below that place on both sides of the river for a distance of twelve or more leagues. There were now in or near the valley six missions, Guadalupe, San Francisco de los Sumas, Senecu, Socorro, Islets and Santa Gertrudis; four Spanish villages or pueblos, San Loranzo, San Pedro de Alcantara, ‘-'an Jose and Islets: and the presidio of EL Paso.
20	1683,	Mendoza	expedition with Father Lonez started for the Jumanos
of the Uueces. This was the expedition that went up through the Big Bend
c untry to probably the Concho-river. Juan Sabaata, a Jumano Indian, urged
the missionaries to come speaking of thirty tribes eastward.
"Among more than thirty tribes which he named as living toward the east were, .the,1 extended nation, of the Human as, * the ’great kingdom of the Texas,1 and the great kingdom of P.uivira. ’ He told particularly of the ’great