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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 4 (search)
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 February, 1528, probably landing at what is now called Charlotte harbor.
A portion of the party left their ships, and marched into the interior, reaching a region which they called Apalache, probably in what is now Alabama.
Then they were driven back to the seashore, amid great hardships, losing one-third of their number before they reached Aute, now the Bay of St. Mark's.
Near this they came to the sea; and here the narrative begins.]
It was a piteous and painful thing to witness the perple
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 6 (search)
Book VI: the adventures of de Soto.
(A. D. 1538-1542.)
These extracts are taken from The Worthy and Famous History of the Travels, Discovery, and Conquest of Terra Florida, accomplished and effected by that worthy General and Captain, Don Ferdinando de Soto, and six hundred Spaniards his followers.
(Reprinted by Hakluyt Society, 1851.) Pages 9-16, 27-32, 89-92, 120-122, 125-127.
This is a translation, made by Hakluyt in 1609, of a narrative by one of the companions of De Soto, first published in 1557.
I.—how de Soto set sail.
Captain Soto was the son of a squire of Xerez of Badajos.
He went into the Spanish Indies when Peter Arias of Avila was governor of the West Indies.
And there he was without any thing else of his own, save his sword and target.
And, for his good qualities and valor, Peter Arias made him captain of a troop of horsemen; and, by his commandment, he went with Fernando Pizarro to the conquest of Peru, where (as many persons of credit reported, whic