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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, translCabeza 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 hurrican he day on which we arrived here was the 6th of November.
Ii.—Cabeza de Vaca saved by Indians.
After the people had eaten, I ordered Lope sacrifice.
i.e., of being offered as a sacrifice.
III.—Cabeza de Vaca's Captivity.
[the eighty men taken by the Indians were soo of which they will not find inconsiderable in such event.
V.—Cabeza de Vaca's escape.
[after getting away from his first captors, he c g up that river over fifty leagues they kill great numbers.
[Cabeza de Vaca crossed the Mississippi, or passed its mouth, many years befo
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 6 (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, Index. (search)