05267nam 2200685Ia 450 991081308240332120200520144314.01-283-63710-30-8263-5065-8(CKB)2550000000061674(EBL)1119038(OCoLC)817819543(SSID)ssj0000541461(PQKBManifestationID)11324679(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541461(PQKBWorkID)10508978(PQKB)10720520(MiAaPQ)EBC1119038(OCoLC)762324968(MdBmJHUP)muse4762(Au-PeEL)EBL1119038(CaPaEBR)ebr10511584(CaONFJC)MIL394956(EXLCZ)99255000000006167420110516d2011 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe South American expeditions, 1540-1545 /Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca ; translated with notes by Baker H. Morrow1st ed.Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press20111 online resource (266 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8263-5063-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Is8: 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 Help14: 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 Complaint21: 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 Others30: 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 Service38: The Town of Asunción BurnsThis 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.GovernorsRio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay)BiographySouth AmericaDiscovery and explorationSpanishSouth AmericaDescription and travelEarly works to 1800Rio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay)Discovery and explorationSpanishRio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay)Description and travelEarly works to 1800Governors980/.013Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Alvar16th cent.395349Morrow Baker H.1946-1626858MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813082403321The South American expeditions, 1540-15454101635UNINA