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The South American Expeditions, 1540-1545

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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Edited and translated by Baker H. Morrow
2011
Published by: University of New Mexico Press
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This book is one of the great first-person accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century. Morrow’s new translation makes Cabeza deVaca’s adventures available to a wide English-speaking audience for the first time.

Table of Contents

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Front Cover

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Title Page

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Copyright

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Contents

pp. vii-xi
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Translator’s Note

pp. xiii-xx
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Translator’s Acknowledgments

p. xxi
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1: A Word About the Commentaries of

pp. 1-2
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2: We Leave the Island of Cape Verde

pp. 3-4
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3: The Governor and His Fleet Arrive at Santa Catalina, in Brazil, Where the Company Disembarks

pp. 5-6
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4: Nine Christians Come to the Island

pp. 7-8
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5: The Governor Makes Haste on His Journey

pp. 9-10
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6: The Governor and His People Begin Their First Ventures into the Interior

pp. 11-12
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7: What the Governor and His People Went By Along the Road, and What Sort of Country It Is

pp. 13-16
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8: Hardships Along the Way for the Governor and His People, and the Kinds of Pines and Pine Cones in That Land

pp. 17-18
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9: The Explorers Starve, but Save Themselves with Worms, Which They Get from Some Canes

pp. 19-21
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10: The Indians Are Afraid of Horses

pp. 22-23
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11: The Governor Travels by Canoe on the R

pp. 24-26
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12: They Make Rafts to Carry the Sick

pp. 27-28
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13: The Governor Arrives at the City of Asunci

pp. 29-31
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14: The Spaniards Who had Fallen Ill on the R

pp. 32-33
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15: The Governor Sends Help to the People Who Had Gone in His Flagship to Buenos Aires to Assist in the Resettlement of That Port

pp. 34-35
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16: They Kill the Enemies They Capture, and Then Eat Them

pp. 36-37
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17: The Governor Concludes a Peace with the Agaces Tribe

pp. 38-40
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18: The Settlers Complain About Your Majesty’s Officials to the Governor

p. 41
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19: They Complain About the Guaycuru Indians to the Governor

p. 42
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20: The Governor Asks for More Details About the Complaint

pp. 43-45
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21: The Governor and His People Cross the River, and Two Christians Drown

pp. 46-47
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22: Spies Go Out by Order of the Governor to Follow the Guaycuru Indians

pp. 48-49
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23: Following the Enemy, the Governor is Advised that They Are Just Ahead

pp. 50-51
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24: A Jaguar Causes an Uproar Between the Spaniards and the Indians

pp. 52-53
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25: The Governor and His Men Catch Up with the Enemy

pp. 54-56
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26: The Governor Breaks His Enemies

pp. 57-58
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27: The Governor Returns to the City of Asunci

pp. 59-60
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28: The Agaces Indians Break the Peace

pp. 61-62
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29: The Governor Sets One of the Guaycuru Prisoners Free and Sends Him to Fetch the Others

p. 63
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30: The Guaycurues Come to Give Their Allegiance to His Majesty

pp. 64-65
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31: The Governor, Making Peace with the Guaycurues, Returns His Prisoners

pp. 66-67
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32: The Aperues Indians Come to Make Peace and Give Their Allegiance

pp. 68-69
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33: Sentence Is Passed on the Agaces, with an Opinion Offered by the Clerics, the Captains, and Your Majesty’s Officials

p. 70
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34: The Governor Again Helps the People of Buenos Aires

pp. 71-73
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35: Three Christians and Some Indians Come Back from Their Explorations

p. 74
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36: Boards Are Cut for Brigantines and a Caravel

p. 75
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37: The Indians of the Countryside Return to Be of Service

pp. 76-79
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38: The Town of Asunci

pp. 80-81
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39: The Return of Domingo de Irala

pp. 82-84
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40: What Gonzalo de Mendoza Wrote

pp. 85-86
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41: The Governor Helps Gonzalo de Mendoza’s Men

p. 87
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42: Four Christians Die of Their Wounds in a War

pp. 88-89
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43: The Friars Flee

pp. 90-91
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44: The Governor Takes Four Hundred Men on His Expedition

pp. 92-93
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45: The Governor Leaves Behind the Supplies He Is Carrying

p. 94
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46: He Pauses to Talk with the Natives of That Port

pp. 95-97
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47: He Sends for an Interpreter for the Payaguaes

p. 98
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48: The Horses Embark from the Port

pp. 99-100
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49: How They Killed Juan de Ayolas and His Companions When They Came to This Port

pp. 101-103
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50: The Interpreter and the Others Who Were Supposed to Return Fail to Do So

pp. 104-107
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51: The Guaxarapos Parley with the Governor

pp. 108-109
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52: The Indians of That Country Come to Live Along the Banks of the River

pp. 110-112
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53: They Put Three Crosses at the Mouth of This River

pp. 113-115
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54: The Indian Farmers of Puerto Reyes

pp. 116-118
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55: How Garcia’s Indians Populated This Place

p. 119
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56: The Governor Speaks with the Chaneses

pp. 120-121
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57: The Governor Looks for Garcia’s Indians

p. 122
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58: The Governor Speaks to the Officials and Lets Them Know What Is Happening

pp. 123-124
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59: The Governor Sends Word to the Xarayes

pp. 125-129
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60: The Interpreters Return from Seeing the Xarayes Indians

pp. 130-132
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61: The Governor Resolves to Set Off on His Exploration

pp. 133-134
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62: The R

pp. 135-136
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63: The Governor Sends Men to Look for a House That Lies Ahead

pp. 137-138
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64: The Interpreter Comes Back from the Little House

pp. 139-140
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65: The Governor and His Men Return to the Port

p. 141
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66: How They Wanted to Kill the Men Who Had Stayed Behind in Puerto Reyes

pp. 142-143
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67: The Governor Orders Captain Mendoza to Search for Provisions

pp. 144-145
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68: The Governor Sends Captain Ribera in a Brigantine to Explore the River of the Xarayes

pp. 146-148
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69: Captain Francisco de Ribera Returns from His Expedition

p. 149
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70: Captain Francisco de Ribera Gives an Account of His Exploration

pp. 150-154
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71: The Governor Sends for Captain Gonzalo de Mendoza

pp. 155-157
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72: Hernando de Ribera Returns from His Exploration Along the River

p. 158
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73: What Happened to the Governor and His People in Puerto Reyes

pp. 159-161
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74: The Governor and His Men Arrive in Asunci

pp. 162-165
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75: The People Gather in Front of Domingo de Irala’s House

pp. 166-167
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76: Turbulence and Uproar Abound in the Land

pp. 168-169
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77: The Governor Is Held Prisoner in a Very Harsh Jail

pp. 170-171
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78: The Insurgents Plunder the Land and Take Its Estates by Force

pp. 172-173
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79: The Friars Flee Again

pp. 174-175
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80: How They Put Everyone Not of Their Opinion on the Rack

p. 176
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81: They Want to Kill an Alderman Because of the Request He Made of Them

pp. 177-178
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82: The Insurgents Allow the Indians to Eat Human Flesh

pp. 179-180
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83: They Write to Your Majesty and Send on Their Account

pp. 181-183
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84: The Governor Is Poisoned Three Times with Arsenic While He Is on the Road

pp. 184-187
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Postscript: The Account of Hernando de Ribera Made Before Pedro Hern

pp. 188-194
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Appendix: Original Preliminary Remarks (the Prohemio) by Cabeza de Vaca

pp. 195-200
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[Image Plates]

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Notes

pp. 211-227
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Suggestions for Further Reading

pp. 229-232
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Index

pp. 233-240
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Back Cover

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