LEADER 05281nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910813082403321 005 20240906122630.0 010 $a1-283-63710-3 010 $a0-8263-5065-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000000061674 035 $a(EBL)1119038 035 $a(OCoLC)817819543 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541461 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11324679 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541461 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10508978 035 $a(PQKB)10720520 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1119038 035 $a(OCoLC)762324968 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4762 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1119038 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10511584 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL394956 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000061674 100 $a20110516d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe South American expeditions, 1540-1545 /$fAlvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca ; translated with notes by Baker H. Morrow 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbuquerque $cUniversity of New Mexico Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (266 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8263-5063-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Translator's Note; Translator's Acknowledgments; 1: A Word About the Commentaries of A?lvar Nu?n?ez 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 327 $a8: 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 Ri?o 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 Asuncio?n, Where He Finds the Christian Spaniards He Had Come to Help 327 $a14: The Spaniards Who had Fallen Ill on the Ri?o de Piqueri Arrive in the City of Asuncio?n15: 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 327 $a21: 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 Asuncio?n 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 327 $a30: 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 327 $a38: The Town of Asuncio?n Burns 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aGovernors$zRio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay)$vBiography 607 $aSouth America$xDiscovery and exploration$xSpanish 607 $aSouth America$xDescription and travel$vEarly works to 1800 607 $aRio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay)$xDiscovery and exploration$xSpanish 607 $aRio de la Plata Region (Argentina and Uruguay)$xDescription and travel$vEarly works to 1800 615 0$aGovernors 676 $a980/.013 700 $aNu?n?ez Cabeza de Vaca$b Alvar$factive 16th century.$0395349 701 $aMorrow$b Baker H.$f1946-$01626858 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813082403321 996 $aThe South American expeditions, 1540-1545$94101635 997 $aUNINA