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Author Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century.

Title The South American expeditions, 1540-1545 / Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ; translated with notes by Baker H. Morrow
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Translator's Note; Translator's Acknowledgments; 1: A Word About the Commentaries of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; 2: We Leave the Island of Cape Verde; 3: The Governor and His Fleet Arrive at Santa Catalina, in Brazil, Where the Company Disembarks; 4: Nine Christians Come to the Island; 5: The Governor Makes Haste on His Journey; 6: The Governor and His People Begin Their First Ventures into the Interior; 7: What the Governor and His People Went By Along the Road, and What Sort of Country It Is
8: Hardships Along the Way for the Governor and His People, and the Kinds of Pines and Pine Cones in That Land9: The Explorers Starve, but Save Themselves with Worms, Which They Get from Some Canes; 10: The Indians Are Afraid of Horses; 11: The Governor Travels by Canoe on the Río de Iguaza, and the Men Carry their Canoes on Their Shoulders for a League to Bypass a Bad Stretch of the River at Some Rapids; 12: They Make Rafts to Carry the Sick; 13: The Governor Arrives at the City of Asunción, Where He Finds the Christian Spaniards He Had Come to Help
14: The Spaniards Who had Fallen Ill on the Río de Piqueri Arrive in the City of Asunción15: The Governor Sends Help to the People Who Had Gone in His Flagship to Buenos Aires to Assist in the Resettlement of That Port; 16: They Kill the Enemies They Capture, and Then Eat Them; 17: The Governor Concludes a Peace with the Agaces Tribe; 18: The Settlers Complain About Your Majesty's Officials to the Governor; 19: They Complain About the Guaycuru Indians to the Governor; 20: The Governor Asks for More Details About the Complaint
21: The Governor and His People Cross the River, and Two Christians Drown22: Spies Go Out by Order of the Governor to Follow the Guaycuru Indians; 23: Following the Enemy, the Governor is Advised that They Are Just Ahead; 24: A Jaguar Causes an Uproar Between the Spaniards and the Indians; 25: The Governor and His Men Catch Up with the Enemy; 26: The Governor Breaks His Enemies; 27: The Governor Returns to the City of Asunción with All His Men; 28: The Agaces Indians Break the Peace; 29: The Governor Sets One of the Guaycuru Prisoners Free and Sends Him to Fetch the Others
30: The Guaycurues Come to Give Their Allegiance to His Majesty31: The Governor, Making Peace with the Guaycurues, Returns His Prisoners; 32: The Aperues Indians Come to Make Peace and Give Their Allegiance; 33: Sentence Is Passed on the Agaces, with an Opinion Offered by the Clerics, the Captains, and Your Majesty's Officials; 34: The Governor Again Helps the People of Buenos Aires; 35: Three Christians and Some Indians Come Back from Their Explorations; 36: Boards Are Cut for Brigantines and a Caravel; 37: The Indians of the Countryside Return to Be of Service
Summary 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 de Vaca's adventures available to a wide English-speaking audience for the first time
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century.
SUBJECT Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century fast
Subject Governors -- Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) -- Biography
HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Discoveries in geography -- Spanish
Governors
Travel
SUBJECT South America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish
South America -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish
Río de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Subject South America
South America -- Río de la Plata Region
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Early works
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Morrow, Baker H., 1946-
LC no. 2011018934
ISBN 0826350658
9780826350657
1283637103
9781283637107
6613949566
9786613949561
Other Titles Relación y comentarios. Selections. English