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Southwestern ilistorical Quarterly
its Kings ; which treats of the Government of the Rio de Pinuco
and of the Rio Hermoso and their provinces; which are two great
rivers which join and enter into the Coast of the North; and
which also treats of the Rio de ]as Palmas, which is more to the
east, ascending by the said coast to return toward the Province
that they call La Florida; and tells how the Captain PImphilo de
Narva.ez and his people, who went to settle the provinces of these
rivers, were lost.
PROEMIO
In Book XXXIII I have told how the Captain Hernando
Cortes settled the River and Province of Panuco and conquered
part of this land. Also I have told how Francisco de Garay went
there as Governor and Adelan,tado of this Province, and was lost
with his expedition, and most of his people died, some at the hands
of Indians and others in divers manners; he, in the end with
them. He went to Temistlan to die.
After this Captain Pimphilo de Narvaez (of whom I treated in
this same book XXXIII, and told how he was sent by the Ade-
lantado Diego VclAzquez with an expedition from Cuba to New
Spain to bring from there the Captain Hernando Cortes, but was
captured by him, and lost an eye, and was detained for some time)
went to Spain, and from there, with license from the Emperor,
Our Lord, he went, as Captain General and Governor, with another
expedition to the river called de las Palmas, to settle a certain
part of the coast of the north, which was given him to
explore. . . .
If Pamphilo de Narvaez had not forgotten the manner of his
treatment in New Spain, and how contrary to expectation his plans
turned out, he would not have gone forth in quest of other whirl-
winds and more fatigue, but rested conten4 with being an hidalgo,
'Elsewhere Oviedo says that the Tropic of Cancer crosses near Rio de las
Palmas, from whence it is more than thirty leagues to Rio Panuco, and
thence to Vera Cruz seventy leagues.
'Only that portion of Oviedo's Proemio which bears directly on Pdnfilo
de Narvaez and his expedition has been translated. The omitted portions
contain some interesting observations by the author concerning the folly
of an elderly hidalgo with a competence, a family and estates, leaving his
repose and setting out to find new riches and glory. The paragraphs
printed between asterisks were translated by Buckingham Smith for his
note on Narvaez in the 1871 edition of his Relation of Alvar Nuneze
Cabeza de Vaac, which translation is used here, without revision.124
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