THE NARRATIVE OF ALVAR NUÑEZ CABEÇA DE VACA

Edited by Frederick W. Hodge

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	The Narrative of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca	[1]
	Introduction	[3]
	Proem	[12]
Chapter 1.	In which is told when the Armada sailed, and of the Officers and Persons who went in it	[14]
Chapter 2.	The Coming of the Governor to the Port of Xagua and with a Pilot	[18]
Chapter 3.	Our Arrival in Florida	[19]
Chapter 4.	Our Entrance into the Country	[20]
Chapter 5.	The Governor leaves the Ships	[24]
Chapter 6.	Our Arrival at Apalache	[28]
Chapter 7.	The Character of the Country	[29]
Chapter 8.	We go from Aute	[33]
Chapter 9.	We leave the Bay of Horses	[37]
Chapter 10.	The Assault from the Indians	[40]
Chapter 11.	Of what befell Lope de Oviedo with the Indians	[44]
Chapter 12.	The Indians bring us Food	[45]
Chapter 13.	We hear of other Christians	[48]
Chapter 14.	The Departure of four Christians	[49]
Chapter 15.	What befell us among the People of Malhado	[52]
Chapter 16.	The Christians leave the Island of Malhado	[55]
Chapter 17.	The Coming of Indians with André's Dorantes, Castillo, and Estevanico	[59]
Chapter 18.	The Story Figueroa recounted from Esquivel	[63]
	Extract from the Letter of the Survivors	[68]
Chapter 19.	Our Separation by the Indians	[70]
Chapter 20.	Of our Escape	[72]
Chapter 21.	Our Cure of some of the Afflicted	[74]
Chapter 22.	The Coming of other Sick to us the next Day	[76]
Chapter 23.	Of our Departure after having eaten the Dogs	[82]
Chapter 24.	Customs of the Indians of that Country	[83]
Chapter 25.	Vigilance of the Indians in War	[85]
Chapter 26.	Of the Nations and Tongues	[86]
Chapter 27.	We moved away and were well received	[88]
Chapter 28.	Of another strange Custom	[91]
Chapter 29.	The Indians plunder each other	[94]
Chapter 30.	The Fashion of receiving us changes	[99]
Chapter 31.	Of our taking the Way to the Maize	[105]
Chapter 32.	The Indians give us the Hearts of Deer	[108]
Chapter 33.	We see Traces of Christians	[112]
Chapter 34.	Of sending for the Christians	[113]
Chapter 35.	The Chief Alcalde receives us kindly the Night we arrive	[116]
Chapter 36.	Of building Churches in that Land	[119]
Chapter 37.	Of what occurred when I wished to return	[121]
Chapter 38.	Of what became of the Others who went to Indias	[123]

THE NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF HERNANDO
DE SOTO, BY THE GENTLEMAN OF ELVAS

Edited by Theodore H. Lewis

	The Narrative of the Expedition of Hernando de Soto, by the Gentleman of Elvas	[127]
	Introduction	[129]
	Epigram of Silveira	[133]
	Prefatory Note by the Printer	[134]
Chapter 1.	Who Soto was, and how he came to get the Government of Florida	[135]
Chapter 2.	How Cabeça de Vaca arrived at Court, and gave Account of the Country of Florida; and of the Persons who assembled at Seville to accompany Don Hernando de Soto	[136]
Chapter 3.	How the Portuguese went to Seville, and thence to Sanlúcar; and how the Captains were appointed over the Ships, and the People distributed among them	[138]
Chapter 4.	How the Adelantado with his People left Spain, going to the Canary Islands, and afterward arrived in the Antillas	[139]
Chapter 5.	Of the Inhabitants there are in the City of Santiago and other Towns of the Island, the Character of the Soil, and of the Fruit	[140]
Chapter 6.	How the Governor sent Doña Ysabel with the Ships from Santiago to Havana, while he with some of the Men went thither by land	[142]
Chapter 7.	How we left Havana and came to Florida, and what other Matters took place	[145]
Chapter 8.	Of some Inroads that were made, and how a Christian was found who had been a long time in the possession of a Cacique	[148]
Chapter 9.	How the Christian came to the Land of Florida, who he was, and of what passed at his Interview with the Governor	[149]
Chapter 10.	How the Governor, having sent the Ships to Cuba, marched Inland, leaving one hundred Men at the Port	[153]
Chapter 11.	How the Governor arrived at Caliquen, and thence, taking the Cacique with him, came to Napetaca, where the Indians, attempting to rescue him, had many of their Number killed and captured	[156]
Chapter 12.	How the Governor arrived at Palache, and was informed that there was much Gold inland	[160]
Chapter 13.	How the Governor went from Apalache in quest of Yupaha, and what befell him	[164]
Chapter 14.	How the Governor left the Province of Patofa, marching into a Desert Country, where he, with his People, became exposed to great Peril, and underwent severe Privation	[169]
Chapter 15.	How the Governor went from Cutifachiqui in quest of Coça, and what occurred to him on the Journey	[175]
Chapter 16.	How the Governor left Chiaha, and, having run a Hazard of falling by the Hands of the Indians at Acoste, escaped by his Address: what occurred to him on the Route, and how he came to Coça	[181]
Chapter 17.	Of how the Governor went from Coça to Tascaluça	[185]
Chapter 18.	How the Indians rose upon the Governor, and what followed upon that Rising	[190]
Chapter 19.	How the Governor set his Men in order of Battle, and entered the town of Mauilla	[192]
Chapter 20.	How the Governor set out from Mauilla to go to Chicaça, and what befell him	[194]
Chapter 21.	How the Indians returned to attack the Christians, and how the Governor went to Alimamu, and they tarried to give him Battle in the Way	[199]
Chapter 22.	How the Governor went from Quizquiz, and thence to the River Grande	[201]
Chapter 23.	How the Governor went from Aquixo to Casqui, and thence to Pacaha; and how this Country differs from the other	[205]
Chapter 24.	How the Cacique of Pacaha came in Peace, and he of Casqui, having absented himself, returned to excuse his Conduct; and how the Governor made Friendship between the Chiefs	[209]
Chapter 25.	How the Governor went from Pacaha to Aquiguate and to Coligoa, and came to Cayas	[213]
Chapter 26.	How the Governor went to visit the Province of Tulla, and what happened to him	[217]
Chapter 27.	How the Governor went from Tulla to Autiamque, where he passed the Winter	[221]
Chapter 28.	How the Governor went from Autiamque to Nilco, and thence to Guachoya	[224]
Chapter 29.	The Message sent to Quigaltam, and the Answer brought back to the Governor, and what occurred the while	[228]
Chapter 30.	The Death of the Adelantado, Don Hernando de Soto, and how Luys Moscoso de Alvarado was chosen Governor	[232]
Chapter 31.	How the Governor Luys de Moscoso left Guachoya and went to Chaguete, and thence to Aguacay	[235]
Chapter 32.	How the Governor went from Aguacay to Naguatex, and what happened to him	[238]
Chapter 33.	How the Cacique of Naguatex came to visit the Governor, and how the Governor went thence, and arrived at Nondacao	[240]
Chapter 34.	How the Governor marched from Nondacao to Soacatino and Guasco, passing through a Wilderness, whence, for want of a Guide and Interpreter, he retired to Nilco	[243]
Chapter 35.	How the Christians returned to Nilco, and thence went to Minoya, where they prepared to build Vessels in which to leave Florida	[246]
Chapter 36.	How Seven Brigantines were built, and the Christians took their Departure from Aminoya	[250]
Chapter 37.	How the Christians, on their Voyage, were attacked in the River, by the Indians of Quigualtam, and what happened	[254]
Chapter 38.	How the Christians were Pursued by the Indians	[257]
Chapter 39.	How the Christians came to the Sea, what occurred then, and what befell them on the Voyage	[259]
Chapter 40.	How the Brigantines lost Sight of each other in a Storm, and afterwards came together at a Kay	[262]
Chapter 41.	How the Christians arrived at the River Panico	[264]
Chapter 42.	How the Christians came to Panico, and of their Reception by the Inhabitants	[266]
Chapter 43.	The Favor the People found in the Viceroy and Residents of Mexico	[268]
Chapter 44.	Which sets forth some of the Diversities and Peculiarities of Florida; and the Fruit, Birds, and Beasts of the Country	[270]

THE NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF CORONADO,
BY PEDRO DE CASTAÑEDA

Edited by Frederick W. Hodge

	The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado, by Pedro de Castañeda	[273]
	Introduction	[275]
	Preface	[281]
	FIRST PART
Chapter 1.	Which treats of the Way we first came to know about the Seven Cities, and of how Nuño de Guzman made an Expedition to discover them	[285]
Chapter 2.	Of how Francisco Vazquez Coronado came to be Governor, and the second Account which Cabeza de Vaca gave	[287]
Chapter 3.	Of how they killed the Negro Estevan at Cibola, and Friar Marcos returned in Flight	[289]
Chapter 4.	Of how the noble Don Antonio de Mendoza made an Expedition to discover Cibola	[290]
Chapter 5.	Concerning the Captains who went to Cibola	[292]
Chapter 6.	Of how all the Companies collected in Compostela and set off on the Journey in good Order	[293]
Chapter 7.	Of how the Army reached Chiametla, and the Killing of the Army-Master, and the other things that happened up to the Arrival at Culiacan	[295]
Chapter 8.	Of how the Army entered the Town of Culiacan and the Reception it received, and other things which happened before the Departure	[297]
Chapter 9.	Of how the Army started from Culiacan and the Arrival of the General at Cibola, and of the Army at Señora and of other things that happened	[298]
Chapter 10.	Of how the Army started from the Town of Señora, leaving it inhabited, and how it reached Cibola, and of what happened to Captain Melchior Diaz on his Expedition in Search of the Ships and how he discovered the Tison (Firebrand) River	[302]
Chapter 11.	Of how Don Pedro de Tovar discovered Tusayan or Tutahaco and Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas saw the Firebrand River, and the other things that had happened	[306]
Chapter 12.	Of how people came from Cicuye to Cibola to see the Christians, and how Hernando de Alvarado went to see the Cows	[310]
Chapter 13.	Of how the General went toward Tutahaco with a few Men and left the Army with Don Tristan, who took it to Tiguex	[313]
Chapter 14.	Of how the Army went from Cibola to Tiguex and what happened to them on the way, on account of the Snow	[315]
Chapter 15.	Of why Tiguex revolted, and how they were punished, without being to Blame for it	[317]
Chapter 16.	Of how they besieged Tiguex and took it and of what happened during the Siege	[320]
Chapter 17.	Of how Messengers reached the Army from the Valley of Señora, and how Captain Melchior Diaz died on the Expedition to the Firebrand River	[324]
Chapter 18.	Of how the General managed to leave the Country in Peace so as to go in Search of Quivira, where the Turk said there was the most Wealth	[327]
Chapter 19.	Of how they started in Search of Quivira and of what happened on the Way	[329]
Chapter 20.	Of how great Stones fell in the Camp, and how they discovered another Ravine, where the Army was divided into two Parts	[333]
Chapter 21.	Of how the Army returned to Tiguex and the General reached Quivira	[335]
Chapter 22.	Of how the General returned from Quivira and of other Expeditions toward the North	[339]
	SECOND PART
	Which treats of the High Villages and Provinces and of their Habits and Customs, as collected by Pedro deCastañeda, Native of the City of Najara
Chapter 1.	Of the Province of Culiacan and of its Habits and Customs	[344]
Chapter 2.	Of the Province of Petlatlan and all the Inhabited Country as far as Chichilticalli	[346]
Chapter 3.	Of Chichilticalli and the Desert, of Cibola, its Customs and Habits, and of other things	[349]
Chapter 4.	Of how they live at Tiguex, and of the Province of Tiguex and its Neighborhood	[352]
Chapter 5.	Of Cicuye and the Villages in its Neighborhood, and of how some People came to conquer this Country	[355]
Chapter 6.	Which gives the Number of Villages which were seen in the Country of the Terraced Houses, and their Population	[358]
Chapter 7.	Which treats of the Plains that were crossed, of the Cows, and of the People who inhabit them	[361]
Chapter 8.	Of Quivira, of where it is and some Information about it	[364]
	THIRD PART
	Which describes what happened to Francisco Vazquez Coronado during the Winter, and how he gave up the Expedition and returned to New Spain
Chapter 1.	Of how Don Pedro de Tovar came from Señora with some Men, and Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas started back to New Spain	[366]
Chapter 2.	Of the General's Fall, and of how the Return to New Spain was ordered	[368]
Chapter 3.	Of the Rebellion at Suya and the Reasons the Settlers gave for it	[370]
Chapter 4.	Of how Friar Juan de Padilla and Friar Luis remained in the Country and the Army prepared to return to Mexico	[372]
Chapter 5.	Of how the Army left the Settlements and marched to Culiacan, and of what happened on the Way	[375]
Chapter 6.	Of how the General started from Culiacan to give the Viceroy an Account of the Army with which he had been intrusted	[377]
Chapter 7.	Of the Adventures of Captain Juan Gallego while he was bringing Reënforcements through the Revolted Country	[379]
Chapter 8.	Which describes some remarkable things that were seen on the Plains, with a Description of the Bulls	[381]
Chapter 9.	Which treats of the Direction which the Army took, and of how another more direct Way might be found, if anyone was to return to that Country	[384]