QUARAS INDIAN VILLAGE. Quaras, an Indian village in the Karankawa-inhabited area of Matagorda Bay, was visited by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle,^qv in 1688.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Frederick Webb Hodge, ed., Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (2 vols., Washington: GPO, 1907, 1910; rpt., New York: Pageant, 1959).

Margery H. Krieger