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Book IV: the strange voyage of Cabeza de Vaca.
(A. D. 1528-1533.)
These extracts are taken from The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca, translated by Buckingham Smith, Washington, 1851, pp. 30-99. See, also, Henry Kingsley's Tales of Old Travel.
I.—The strange voyage.
[Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca sailed for Florida in June, 1527, as treasurer of a Spanish armada, or armed fleet.
In Cuba they encountered a hurricane, which delayed them; but they at last reached the coast of Florida in Fe